Alert archive / California / Monterey County
Weather alerts in Monterey County, California, 2009
51 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Monterey County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 51
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 30
- Busiest month
- October18 alerts
- Busiest day
- October 13, 20094 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Monterey County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Flash flood warnings | 6 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings | 10 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 4:01 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 17 hr |
| Feb 3, 11:26 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 4 hr |
| Feb 7, 5:33 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 9 hr |
| Feb 10, 7:41 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 39 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:44 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MTR | 41 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:19 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 12 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:48 AM PST | High Wind Warning | MTR | 45 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:48 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 45 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:09 PM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 42 hr |
| Feb 17, 6:09 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 6:34 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 26 min |
| Feb 17, 7:18 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:29 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:20 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 29 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:26 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Mar 4, 12:56 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 1:17 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | MTR | 15 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:35 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 32 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:54 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 27 hr |
| May 15, 11:23 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 57 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:01 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 32 hr |
| Sep 11, 9:44 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 5 hr |
| Sep 11, 2:25 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 25 hr |
| Oct 4, 1:48 PM PDT | Frost Advisory | MTR | 13 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:46 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | MTR | 11 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:09 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | MTR | 45 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:09 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 45 hr |
| Oct 12, 9:38 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 38 hr |
| Oct 13, 8:42 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 9:54 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 6 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:48 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:41 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 4 hr |
| Oct 13, 6:53 PM PDT | Areal Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Oct 18, 8:20 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 2 hr |
| Oct 21, 1:20 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 34 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:02 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:38 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | MTR | 13 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:12 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 47 hr |
| Oct 27, 9:32 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:17 AM PDT | Frost Advisory | MTR | 30 hr |
| Nov 5, 1:58 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
| Nov 15, 3:42 AM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 28 hr |
| Nov 26, 4:31 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 59 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:01 PM PST | Freeze Watch | MTR | 38 hr |
| Dec 6, 6:56 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MTR | 17 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:09 AM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 29 hr |
| Dec 7, 4:09 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 29 hr |
| Dec 8, 9:47 AM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 23 hr |
| Dec 8, 9:47 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 23 hr |
| Dec 16, 11:08 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 27 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| High Wind Watch | 3 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Advisory | 7 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.