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
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 12 | 1 | 92% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings | 141 | 25 | 82% | 52 | 71% | 22 min |
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings | 38 | 12 | 68% | 28 | 68% | 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2:46 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 14 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:26 AM PST | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 25 hr |
| Jan 16, 4:21 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 14 hr |
| Jan 16, 9:04 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 16 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:25 PM PST | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:33 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 29 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:20 AM PST | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:17 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 30 hr |
| Mar 4, 1:47 PM PST | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 12 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:00 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 18 hr |
| Mar 14, 4:28 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 16 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:27 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 25 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:33 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 14 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:30 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 24 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:26 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 30 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:58 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 12 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:51 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 48 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:27 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 39 hr |
| Apr 29, 1:54 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 30 hr |
| May 1, 4:55 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 13 hr |
| May 10, 2:52 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 9 min |
| May 10, 3:01 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 39 hr |
| May 12, 5:53 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 15 hr |
| May 12, 2:43 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 26 hr |
| May 15, 3:46 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 15 hr |
| May 19, 3:34 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 35 hr |
| May 19, 3:08 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 14 hr |
| May 20, 3:01 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 20 hr |
| May 20, 3:01 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 30 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:30 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 15 hr |
| Jun 4, 5:56 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 16 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:54 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 9:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 3:32 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 118 min |
| Aug 7, 3:58 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 4:16 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 59 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 4:49 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 116 min |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 5:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 9:30 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 1:11 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 109 min |
| Aug 30, 8:10 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 110 min |
| Sep 9, 5:38 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 21 min |
| Sep 10, 12:59 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 46 min |
| Sep 10, 3:05 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 55 min |
| Sep 11, 11:45 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 37 min |
| Sep 11, 11:49 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Sep 17, 6:12 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 48 min |
| Oct 10, 4:20 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 11 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:30 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 10 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:42 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 29 hr |
| Nov 26, 6:37 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 3 hr |
| Nov 26, 7:48 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 117 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 20 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 14 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.