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
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2011
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings | 6 | 0 | 100% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 12:00 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | MTR | 11 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:16 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 10 hr |
| Jan 16, 5:21 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:00 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 20 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:24 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 21 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:57 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 30 hr |
| Feb 15, 5:41 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 20 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:11 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 12 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:03 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 31 days |
| Feb 17, 12:54 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:48 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MTR | 11 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:26 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | MTR | 13 hr |
| Feb 23, 1:26 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MTR | 67 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:52 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | MTR | 29 hr |
| Feb 25, 7:30 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 75 min |
| Feb 25, 8:40 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 65 min |
| Feb 25, 9:56 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 5:40 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 26 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:17 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 26 hr |
| Mar 11, 2:57 PM PST | Tsunami Advisory | AAQ | 17 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:39 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 33 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:54 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 26 hr |
| Mar 17, 2:57 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 54 hr |
| Mar 18, 9:49 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | MTR | 28 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:54 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | MTR | 16 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:54 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 16 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:22 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 22 hr |
| Mar 21, 8:03 AM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 22 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:01 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 19 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:24 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | MTR | 27 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:27 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 19 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:45 AM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 20 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:55 PM PDT | High Surf Warning | MTR | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 5:27 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:09 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 8 hr |
| Apr 8, 9:19 PM PDT | Frost Advisory | MTR | 10 hr |
| Jun 21, 10:28 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 10 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:18 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 8 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:18 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 41 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:43 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 5 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:33 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 87 min |
| Aug 24, 7:38 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 101 min |
| Sep 9, 12:02 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 16 hr |
| Sep 9, 12:02 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 23 hr |
| Sep 22, 1:57 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MTR | 16 hr |
| Sep 23, 6:19 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 23 hr |
| Oct 10, 8:06 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 114 min |
| Oct 31, 2:55 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Nov 4, 12:34 PM PDT | Frost Advisory | MTR | 20 hr |
| Nov 7, 9:51 AM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 23 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:24 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
| Dec 1, 2:24 PM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 17 hr |
| Dec 1, 6:41 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 5 hr |
| Dec 3, 9:18 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 11 hr |
| Dec 5, 12:02 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 8 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:56 AM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 30 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:56 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 30 hr |
| Dec 6, 3:54 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 29 hr |
| Dec 22, 1:51 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 19 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:33 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 19 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:13 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 20 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 | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 8 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 9 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Warning | 1 |
| High Surf Advisory | 9 |
| Tsunami Advisory | 1 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012
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.