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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings60100%0

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings20100%10%
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings100100%10%

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
Dec 31, 4:01 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Feb 3, 11:26 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR4 hr
Feb 7, 5:33 AM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR9 hr
Feb 10, 7:41 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR39 hr
Feb 11, 2:44 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMTR41 hr
Feb 13, 2:19 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchMTR12 hr
Feb 14, 2:48 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningMTR45 hr
Feb 14, 2:48 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR45 hr
Feb 14, 3:09 PM PSTFlash Flood WatchMTR42 hr
Feb 17, 6:09 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTR36 min
Feb 17, 6:34 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTR26 min
Feb 17, 7:18 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR3 hr
Feb 22, 9:29 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR8 hr
Mar 1, 10:20 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR29 hr
Mar 2, 5:26 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTR3 hr
Mar 4, 12:56 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningMTR57 min
Mar 9, 1:17 PM PDTFreeze WarningMTR15 hr
Apr 13, 2:35 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR32 hr
Apr 19, 4:54 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR27 hr
May 15, 11:23 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR57 hr
Aug 27, 4:01 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR32 hr
Sep 11, 9:44 AM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR5 hr
Sep 11, 2:25 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR25 hr
Oct 4, 1:48 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR13 hr
Oct 11, 2:46 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTR11 hr
Oct 12, 2:09 AM PDTHigh Wind WarningMTR45 hr
Oct 12, 2:09 AM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR45 hr
Oct 12, 9:38 AM PDTFlash Flood WatchMTR38 hr
Oct 13, 8:42 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningMTR3 hr
Oct 13, 9:54 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR3 hr
Oct 13, 2:44 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningMTR6 hr
Oct 13, 2:48 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR4 hr
Oct 13, 6:41 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR4 hr
Oct 13, 6:53 PM PDTAreal Flood WarningMTR3 hr
Oct 18, 8:20 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR2 hr
Oct 21, 1:20 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR34 hr
Oct 25, 2:02 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR7 hr
Oct 25, 2:38 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTR13 hr
Oct 26, 3:12 AM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR47 hr
Oct 27, 9:32 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Oct 28, 2:17 AM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR30 hr
Nov 5, 1:58 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR3 days
Nov 15, 3:42 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR28 hr
Nov 26, 4:31 AM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR59 hr
Dec 5, 2:01 PM PSTFreeze WatchMTR38 hr
Dec 6, 6:56 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Dec 7, 4:09 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR29 hr
Dec 7, 4:09 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR29 hr
Dec 8, 9:47 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR23 hr
Dec 8, 9:47 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR23 hr
Dec 16, 11:08 AM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR27 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.