Alert archive / California

Weather alerts in Humboldt County, California

2,003 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Humboldt County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,003
Warnings
315
Watches
211
Advisories
986
Busiest year
2024232 alerts
Average year
69over 29 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2009 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Humboldt County fell inside a tornado warning, and of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2018010%
2023010%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20099189%10%
201210100%20%
201310100%0
201430100%60%
2015110%1100%16 min
201630100%0
20172150%1100%14 min
2019010%
2020010%
2022010%
202320100%0
2024030%
2025010%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%20%
20120140%
2015020%
20160130%
2017040%
2018010%
2019040%
2022030%
2023010%
20240480%
202510100%230%

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 19, 3:37 PM PDTRed Flag WarningEKA26 hr
Jul 13, 1:40 PM PDTRed Flag WarningEKA36 hr
Jun 18, 11:55 AM PDTRed Flag WarningEKA31 hr
Apr 16, 12:49 PM PDTFreeze WarningEKA20 hr
Apr 16, 3:08 AM PDTFreeze WarningEKA10 hr
Apr 15, 2:38 PM PDTFreeze WarningEKA18 hr
Apr 9, 12:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEKA29 min
Feb 24, 11:17 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA8 hr
Feb 24, 9:20 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA5 hr
Feb 24, 8:49 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA35 hr
Feb 24, 7:54 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA3 hr
Feb 24, 7:31 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA11 hr

Nearby

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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.