Alert archive / California / Monterey County
Weather alerts in Monterey County, California, 2014
66 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 30
- Busiest month
- December28 alerts
- Busiest day
- December 12, 20149 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, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 8 | 1 | 88% | 6 | 17% | 99 min |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 6 | 0% | |
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings | 20 | 6 | 70% | 39 | 18% | 52 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 10:24 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 40 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:54 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 15 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:22 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 21 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:20 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 3 days |
| Jan 22, 1:57 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | MTR | 59 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:52 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 53 min |
| Feb 6, 11:41 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 64 min |
| Feb 11, 2:38 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 7 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:57 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 12 hr |
| Feb 26, 12:39 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 12 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:36 AM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 8 hr |
| Feb 27, 11:58 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 22 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:11 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 51 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:24 PM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 46 hr |
| Feb 28, 4:28 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 4 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:03 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 87 min |
| Mar 11, 12:30 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 33 hr |
| Mar 14, 12:46 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 67 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:13 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MTR | 32 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:38 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | MTR | 37 min |
| Apr 1, 2:43 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:52 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 41 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:55 PM PDT | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 55 hr |
| May 11, 10:54 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | MTR | 25 hr |
| May 12, 5:08 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 4 days |
| May 12, 12:02 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 56 hr |
| Sep 7, 6:41 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 11 hr |
| Oct 1, 8:40 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 60 hr |
| Oct 3, 10:23 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 35 hr |
| Oct 3, 8:48 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 6 hr |
| Oct 9, 3:52 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 4 days |
| Oct 15, 1:34 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 25 hr |
| Oct 18, 7:57 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 3 days |
| Oct 26, 5:29 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 12 hr |
| Nov 1, 1:44 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 27 hr |
| Nov 8, 7:46 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 30 hr |
| Nov 10, 2:09 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 8 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:52 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 62 hr |
| Dec 2, 7:39 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 12 hr |
| Dec 8, 12:54 PM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 3 days |
| Dec 8, 1:02 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 25 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:17 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| Dec 9, 2:02 PM PST | High Wind Warning | MTR | 50 hr |
| Dec 11, 10:42 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 11:46 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:23 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 5:04 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 116 min |
| Dec 11, 5:51 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 4 hr |
| Dec 11, 6:45 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 2 hr |
| Dec 11, 7:03 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 117 min |
| Dec 11, 8:42 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 2 hr |
| Dec 11, 9:16 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 9:43 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 2 hr |
| Dec 11, 10:43 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 6 hr |
| Dec 12, 9:03 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 18 hr |
| Dec 14, 1:29 PM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 25 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:29 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 4 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:49 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 86 min |
| Dec 15, 10:47 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 118 min |
| Dec 16, 3:33 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 8:27 PM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MTR | 28 min |
| Dec 18, 3:32 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 66 hr |
| Dec 19, 9:15 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MTR | 17 hr |
| Dec 19, 9:15 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| Dec 24, 8:03 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 10 hr |
| Dec 26, 2:34 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 17 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 8 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 13 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 1 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| High Wind Watch | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| High Surf Advisory | 7 |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 15 |
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.