Alert archive / California / Imperial County

Weather alerts in Imperial County, California, 2008

54 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Imperial County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
54
Warnings
33
Watches
15
Advisories
5
Busiest month
May10 alerts
Busiest day
August 7, 20083 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Imperial County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings12192%0
Flash flood warnings10100%0

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings1412582%5271%22 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings381268%2868%93 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 1, 2:46 AM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR14 hr
Jan 15, 3:26 AM PSTFire Weather WatchPSR25 hr
Jan 16, 4:21 AM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR14 hr
Jan 16, 9:04 PM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR16 hr
Feb 12, 1:25 PM PSTFire Weather WatchPSR24 hr
Feb 13, 1:33 PM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR29 hr
Mar 1, 5:20 AM PSTFire Weather WatchPSR8 hr
Mar 1, 1:17 PM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR30 hr
Mar 4, 1:47 PM PSTFire Weather WatchPSR12 hr
Mar 5, 2:00 AM PSTRed Flag WarningPSR18 hr
Mar 14, 4:28 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR16 hr
Apr 7, 5:27 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR25 hr
Apr 8, 6:33 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR14 hr
Apr 13, 3:30 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR24 hr
Apr 14, 3:26 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR30 hr
Apr 16, 4:58 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR12 hr
Apr 17, 4:51 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR48 hr
Apr 28, 2:27 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR39 hr
Apr 29, 1:54 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR30 hr
May 1, 4:55 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR13 hr
May 10, 2:52 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR9 min
May 10, 3:01 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR39 hr
May 12, 5:53 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR15 hr
May 12, 2:43 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR26 hr
May 15, 3:46 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR15 hr
May 19, 3:34 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR35 hr
May 19, 3:08 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR14 hr
May 20, 3:01 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR20 hr
May 20, 3:01 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR30 hr
Jun 3, 2:30 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR15 hr
Jun 4, 5:56 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR16 hr
Jul 10, 2:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 10, 9:33 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR42 min
Aug 7, 3:32 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR118 min
Aug 7, 3:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR62 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR59 min
Aug 8, 4:17 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR58 min
Aug 8, 4:49 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR116 min
Aug 8, 5:03 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR57 min
Aug 8, 5:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR57 min
Aug 25, 9:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR60 min
Aug 29, 1:11 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR109 min
Aug 30, 8:10 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR110 min
Sep 9, 5:38 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR21 min
Sep 10, 12:59 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR46 min
Sep 10, 3:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR55 min
Sep 11, 11:45 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR37 min
Sep 11, 11:49 AM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Sep 17, 6:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Oct 10, 4:20 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR11 hr
Oct 11, 4:30 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR10 hr
Oct 12, 2:42 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR29 hr
Nov 26, 6:37 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR3 hr
Nov 26, 7:48 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR117 min

By product

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.