Alert archive / California / Merced County

Weather alerts in Merced County, California, 2019

24 weather alerts in 2019, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Merced County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
24
Warnings
9
Watches
0
Advisories
6
Busiest month
March13 alerts
Busiest day
March 6, 20195 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 2 tornado warnings covering Merced County in 2019 had a tornado report inside them.

Merced County, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings2150%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings70100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings9278%128%25 min
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings33197%714%42 min
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings34682%5014%51 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
Feb 2, 3:13 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX32 min
Feb 2, 3:30 PM PSTTornado WarningHNX29 min
Feb 3, 3:52 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX53 min
Feb 4, 7:13 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX6 hr
Feb 4, 1:40 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX4 days
Feb 8, 1:29 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX5 days
Feb 14, 10:50 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Feb 15, 1:35 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX4 hr
Mar 2, 1:46 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Mar 6, 12:33 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX42 min
Mar 6, 1:19 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX41 min
Mar 6, 2:16 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX29 min
Mar 6, 3:02 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX28 min
Mar 6, 3:32 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX28 min
Mar 27, 2:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 min
Mar 27, 3:30 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX45 min
Mar 27, 4:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX25 min
Mar 27, 5:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX37 min
Mar 27, 5:14 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX21 min
Mar 27, 5:31 PM PDTTornado WarningHNX29 min
Mar 27, 6:49 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNX26 min
May 21, 4:03 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX27 min
May 26, 1:16 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 min
Dec 8, 8:16 AM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX44 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.