Alert archive / California / Monterey County

Weather alerts in Monterey County, California, 2015

56 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
56
Warnings
13
Watches
2
Advisories
26
Busiest month
November13 alerts
Busiest day
November 26, 20154 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, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings010%

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings010%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings12192%1020%23 min
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings24579%1533%50 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: tornado warnings030%
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings853065%15352%15 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings25484%1436%79 min
NWS San Diego, CA: tornado warnings020%
NWS San Diego, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings18667%2458%30 min
NWS San Diego, CA: flash flood warnings311939%8860%58 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings9278%4100%47 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings401368%4065%63 min
NWS Medford, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings37489%1250%15 min
NWS Medford, OR: flash flood warnings5260%540%49 min
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings020%
NWS Las Vegas, NV: tornado warnings010%
NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings661676%8143%22 min
NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings1679146%25772%78 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings60100%90%
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings21386%1338%10 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings5180%729%114 min
NWS Eureka, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings5180%1100%16 min
NWS Eureka, CA: flash flood warnings10100%50%
NWS Reno, NV: tornado warnings030%
NWS Reno, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings45687%2638%11 min
NWS Reno, NV: flash flood warnings541376%3158%66 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 1, 1:41 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR19 hr
Jan 2, 10:42 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR22 hr
Jan 11, 6:14 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR5 hr
Jan 12, 2:13 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR8 hr
Jan 13, 7:49 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR2 hr
Jan 18, 5:00 PM PSTCoastal Flood StatementMTR69 hr
Jan 21, 1:43 PM PSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMTR4 days
Feb 4, 1:21 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR61 hr
Feb 7, 2:15 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR32 hr
Feb 8, 10:08 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR6 hr
Feb 10, 1:14 PM PSTBeach Hazards StatementMTR3 days
Feb 17, 6:37 AM PSTCoastal Flood StatementMTR62 hr
Mar 10, 3:30 AM PDTDense Fog AdvisoryMTR7 hr
Apr 1, 7:53 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR12 hr
Apr 2, 1:55 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryMTR15 hr
Apr 6, 3:14 AM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryMTR35 hr
Apr 15, 2:33 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR54 hr
Jun 7, 2:36 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR41 hr
Jul 19, 7:26 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR49 min
Aug 6, 9:50 AM PDTRed Flag WarningMTR19 hr
Aug 15, 7:20 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR26 hr
Aug 29, 2:51 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR30 hr
Sep 4, 2:36 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR3 days
Sep 8, 2:27 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Sep 8, 2:27 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR41 hr
Sep 9, 2:33 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR40 hr
Sep 9, 3:00 AM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR18 hr
Sep 9, 10:24 PM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR23 hr
Sep 20, 2:43 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Sep 21, 3:13 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryMTR17 hr
Oct 9, 3:30 AM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR66 hr
Oct 14, 3:20 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMTR25 min
Oct 27, 3:19 AM PDTBeach Hazards StatementMTR60 hr
Nov 4, 1:27 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR19 hr
Nov 10, 2:36 AM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR30 hr
Nov 11, 2:22 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR19 hr
Nov 12, 1:36 PM PSTBeach Hazards StatementMTR50 hr
Nov 14, 5:14 PM PSTWind AdvisoryMTR35 hr
Nov 23, 1:39 PM PSTCoastal Flood StatementMTR3 days
Nov 26, 2:33 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR30 hr
Nov 26, 2:33 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR54 hr
Nov 26, 1:53 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR19 hr
Nov 26, 1:53 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR43 hr
Nov 28, 1:03 PM PSTFrost AdvisoryMTR20 hr
Nov 28, 1:03 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR20 hr
Nov 29, 1:23 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR20 hr
Dec 5, 10:23 PM PSTHigh Surf WarningMTR54 hr
Dec 9, 1:15 PM PSTCoastal Flood AdvisoryMTR47 hr
Dec 9, 1:15 PM PSTHigh Surf WarningMTR3 days
Dec 15, 2:23 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR19 hr
Dec 16, 8:09 AM PSTBeach Hazards StatementMTR10 hr
Dec 16, 2:38 PM PSTFreeze WarningMTR18 hr
Dec 24, 2:53 AM PSTFreeze WatchMTR24 hr
Dec 24, 2:53 AM PSTFreeze WatchMTR48 hr
Dec 25, 2:55 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR30 hr
Dec 26, 3:09 AM PSTFreeze WarningMTR30 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.

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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.