Alert archive / California / Mendocino County

Weather alerts in Mendocino County, California, 2012

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

Mendocino County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
39
Warnings
10
Watches
4
Advisories
16
Busiest month
December27 alerts
Busiest day
December 22, 20128 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Mendocino County, 2012

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

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Medford, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings17476%1331%9 min
NWS Medford, OR: flash flood warnings030%
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings8275%1429%28 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings6183%729%24 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings110%1020%62 min
NWS Eureka, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings5180%333%6 min
NWS Eureka, CA: flash flood warnings0210%
NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings40100%10%
NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings7357%863%24 min
NWS San Diego, CA: tornado warnings10100%20%
NWS San Diego, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings30777%2540%18 min
NWS San Diego, CA: flash flood warnings431467%3845%51 min
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings10100%40%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings14657%1753%18 min
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings20100%90%
NWS Reno, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings9278%850%23 min
NWS Reno, NV: flash flood warnings4175%147%0 min
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings30100%10%
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings17382%1020%69 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: tornado warnings010%
NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings72692%4916%21 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings2286970%20463%58 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings561966%5058%20 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings782272%4670%62 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
Mar 27, 2:34 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningEKA15 hr
Mar 31, 3:30 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKA60 min
Mar 31, 4:31 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKA44 min
Apr 12, 3:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementEKA42 min
Nov 28, 3:51 PM PSTRiver Flood WatchEKA16 hr
Nov 29, 7:14 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA32 hr
Nov 29, 9:15 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA3 hr
Nov 29, 2:59 PM PSTRiver Flood AdvisoryEKA19 hr
Nov 29, 9:02 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA3 hr
Nov 29, 10:05 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA6 hr
Nov 30, 3:19 PM PSTRiver Flood WatchEKA18 hr
Nov 30, 3:19 PM PSTRiver Flood WatchEKA18 hr
Dec 1, 9:13 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA36 hr
Dec 1, 9:13 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA29 hr
Dec 1, 8:44 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA10 hr
Dec 1, 8:49 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA10 hr
Dec 1, 11:47 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA12 hr
Dec 2, 6:56 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA3 hr
Dec 2, 6:58 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningEKA3 hr
Dec 2, 10:45 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA4 hr
Dec 2, 2:46 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA3 hr
Dec 21, 3:51 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA6 hr
Dec 21, 8:09 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA6 hr
Dec 21, 9:00 AM PSTRiver Flood AdvisoryEKA9 hr
Dec 21, 9:50 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA5 hr
Dec 21, 10:47 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA13 min
Dec 21, 11:53 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA22 min
Dec 22, 12:45 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA7 hr
Dec 22, 1:38 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA6 hr
Dec 22, 2:44 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA46 min
Dec 22, 3:09 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA21 min
Dec 22, 10:01 AM PSTRiver Flood WatchEKA24 hr
Dec 22, 11:43 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA47 min
Dec 22, 4:22 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementEKA23 min
Dec 23, 6:43 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA6 hr
Dec 23, 9:18 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningEKA17 hr
Dec 23, 1:00 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA4 hr
Dec 23, 2:36 PM PSTRiver Flood AdvisoryEKA10 hr
Dec 23, 5:19 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryEKA3 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.