Alert archive / California / Imperial County

Weather alerts in Imperial County, California, 2016

23 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
23
Warnings
5
Watches
2
Advisories
5
Busiest month
April7 alerts
Busiest day
August 20, 20163 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, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings20100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: tornado warnings10100%0
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings501276%3751%20 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings7529%1242%34 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
Apr 8, 2:23 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR37 min
Apr 8, 5:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR42 min
Apr 13, 1:53 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR26 hr
Apr 14, 3:28 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR29 hr
Apr 15, 3:39 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR40 hr
Apr 24, 2:34 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPSR11 hr
Apr 24, 1:35 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPSR30 hr
May 17, 4:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR45 min
May 17, 6:36 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR114 min
Jul 26, 12:05 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR25 min
Jul 29, 11:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR80 min
Jul 30, 5:22 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR113 min
Aug 17, 5:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR41 min
Aug 18, 5:32 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR43 min
Aug 19, 5:44 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR31 min
Aug 19, 6:11 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR49 min
Aug 19, 7:28 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR32 min
Aug 21, 12:38 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR37 min
Aug 21, 1:11 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR49 min
Sep 12, 3:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPSR55 min
Oct 24, 8:14 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR61 min
Oct 24, 8:57 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR3 hr
Dec 22, 5:15 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPSR3 hr

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.