Alert archive / California / Kings County

Weather alerts in Kings County, California, 2018

19 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
19
Warnings
1
Watches
0
Advisories
3
Busiest month
October6 alerts
Busiest day
April 17, 20183 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, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
Flash flood warnings010%

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings050%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings70100%10%
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings16756%2829%72 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 9, 7:02 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Mar 3, 2:24 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX51 min
Mar 3, 3:17 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX43 min
Mar 16, 6:34 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX41 min
Mar 16, 6:59 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX46 min
Mar 22, 4:18 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX42 min
Apr 16, 3:34 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX41 min
Apr 16, 4:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX49 min
Apr 16, 5:29 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX46 min
Apr 16, 5:47 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX43 min
Apr 16, 7:24 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX51 min
Oct 3, 3:02 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX43 min
Oct 3, 4:11 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX49 min
Oct 3, 4:38 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Oct 3, 8:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX37 min
Oct 3, 8:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX41 min
Oct 3, 8:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 min
Nov 29, 12:46 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 min
Dec 16, 10:49 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 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.