Alert archive / California / Kings County

Weather alerts in Kings County, California, 2012

38 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Kings County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
38
Warnings
4
Watches
0
Advisories
3
Busiest month
January9 alerts
Busiest day
October 11, 20126 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Kings County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings4325%3100%18 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings10100%40%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings14657%1753%18 min
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings20100%90%

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 5, 7:15 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Jan 21, 2:13 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX6 hr
Jan 21, 8:50 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Jan 25, 5:02 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX88 min
Jan 25, 6:36 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX114 min
Jan 25, 8:43 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX107 min
Jan 26, 6:17 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX4 hr
Jan 29, 6:43 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Jan 29, 8:47 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX2 hr
Feb 13, 1:16 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 min
Feb 13, 2:22 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX38 min
Mar 17, 10:24 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX66 min
Mar 17, 12:59 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX2 hr
Apr 11, 11:39 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX66 min
Apr 11, 1:02 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX43 min
Apr 11, 1:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX31 min
Apr 11, 2:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX47 min
Apr 11, 2:24 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX51 min
Apr 11, 6:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX35 min
Apr 13, 2:01 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX59 min
Apr 13, 2:10 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX65 min
Apr 13, 3:09 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX4 hr
May 17, 6:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Jun 4, 3:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Oct 11, 9:09 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX51 min
Oct 11, 10:09 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX6 hr
Oct 11, 10:09 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX51 min
Oct 11, 11:13 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX62 min
Oct 11, 12:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX59 min
Oct 11, 4:00 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Nov 3, 8:09 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Nov 9, 6:54 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX111 min
Nov 22, 5:21 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Dec 10, 8:16 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Dec 28, 5:54 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX3 hr
Dec 28, 8:46 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX59 min
Dec 28, 9:45 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX60 min
Dec 28, 10:58 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX107 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.