Alert archive / California / Monterey County

Weather alerts in Monterey County, California, 2011

61 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
61
Warnings
15
Watches
6
Advisories
40
Busiest month
March17 alerts
Busiest day
February 25, 20114 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, 2011

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

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: tornado warnings10100%10%
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings60100%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 2, 12:00 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningMTR11 hr
Jan 13, 11:16 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR10 hr
Jan 16, 5:21 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Jan 16, 3:00 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR20 hr
Jan 17, 2:24 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR21 hr
Jan 21, 12:57 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR30 hr
Feb 15, 5:41 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR20 hr
Feb 17, 3:11 AM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR12 hr
Feb 17, 9:03 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR31 days
Feb 17, 12:54 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Feb 19, 7:48 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMTR11 hr
Feb 23, 1:26 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMTR13 hr
Feb 23, 1:26 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryMTR67 hr
Feb 25, 3:52 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningMTR29 hr
Feb 25, 7:30 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR75 min
Feb 25, 8:40 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR65 min
Feb 25, 9:56 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR49 min
Feb 26, 5:40 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR26 hr
Mar 1, 4:17 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR26 hr
Mar 11, 2:57 PM PSTTsunami AdvisoryAAQ17 hr
Mar 13, 1:39 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR33 hr
Mar 16, 12:54 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR26 hr
Mar 17, 2:57 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR54 hr
Mar 18, 9:49 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchMTR28 hr
Mar 19, 1:54 PM PDTHigh Wind WarningMTR16 hr
Mar 19, 1:54 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR16 hr
Mar 19, 2:22 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchMTR22 hr
Mar 21, 8:03 AM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR22 hr
Mar 22, 1:01 PM PDTFlash Flood WatchMTR19 hr
Mar 23, 3:24 PM PDTWind AdvisoryMTR27 hr
Mar 23, 10:27 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMTR19 hr
Mar 24, 3:45 AM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR20 hr
Mar 24, 2:55 PM PDTHigh Surf WarningMTR24 hr
Mar 24, 5:27 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningMTR3 hr
Mar 25, 3:09 PM PDTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR8 hr
Apr 8, 9:19 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR10 hr
Jun 21, 10:28 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR10 hr
Jul 2, 3:18 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR8 hr
Jul 2, 3:18 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR41 hr
Aug 23, 2:43 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR5 hr
Aug 23, 8:33 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR87 min
Aug 24, 7:38 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR101 min
Sep 9, 12:02 PM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR16 hr
Sep 9, 12:02 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR23 hr
Sep 22, 1:57 PM PDTFire Weather WatchMTR16 hr
Sep 23, 6:19 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR23 hr
Oct 10, 8:06 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR114 min
Oct 31, 2:55 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Nov 4, 12:34 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR20 hr
Nov 7, 9:51 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR23 hr
Nov 29, 3:24 AM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR3 days
Dec 1, 2:24 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Dec 1, 6:41 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR5 hr
Dec 3, 9:18 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR11 hr
Dec 5, 12:02 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR8 hr
Dec 5, 2:56 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR30 hr
Dec 5, 2:56 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR30 hr
Dec 6, 3:54 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR29 hr
Dec 22, 1:51 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR19 hr
Dec 23, 1:33 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR19 hr
Dec 24, 1:13 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR20 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.