Alert archive / California / Imperial County
Weather alerts in Imperial County, California, 2015
22 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 22
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 7
- Busiest month
- July11 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 20, 20155 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, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 50% | 11 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: tornado warnings | 0 | 3 | 0% | |||
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings | 85 | 30 | 65% | 153 | 52% | 15 min |
| NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings | 25 | 4 | 84% | 14 | 36% | 79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 12:53 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:16 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PSR | 23 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:41 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PSR | 41 hr |
| Apr 23, 6:10 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 50 min |
| May 4, 10:30 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:01 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 44 min |
| Jul 17, 4:12 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 4:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 11:53 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jul 18, 1:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 18, 1:43 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 2:18 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 42 min |
| Jul 19, 5:42 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:43 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 4 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:38 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 112 min |
| Jul 19, 6:49 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 116 min |
| Jul 19, 7:16 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | 119 min |
| Aug 6, 3:57 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PSR | 19 min |
| Oct 15, 7:56 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 34 min |
| Oct 15, 9:42 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | 3 hr |
| Oct 20, 9:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 47 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 | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 7 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 7 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
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.