Gale Watches in California
1,465 gale watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of gale watches reaches back to 2005.
Gale Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Gale Watches
- 1,465
- Busiest year
- 2023128 gale watches
- Average year
- 77over 19 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
The latest gale watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2:46 AM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 60 hr | |
| Sep 10, 8:08 AM PDT | Gale Watch | LOX | 42 hr | |
| Aug 6, 1:40 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 25 hr | |
| Jul 30, 1:56 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 13 hr | |
| Jul 8, 2:53 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 14 hr | |
| Jun 26, 10:24 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 16 hr | |
| Jun 26, 2:40 AM PDT | Gale Watch | MTR | 6 hr | |
| Jun 14, 2:46 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 24 hr | |
| Jun 8, 3:11 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 24 hr | |
| Jun 7, 3:02 PM PDT | Gale Watch | LOX | 18 hr | |
| Jun 4, 8:31 PM PDT | Gale Watch | LOX | 17 hr | |
| Jun 2, 8:54 PM PDT | Gale Watch | EKA | 12 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.