Alert archive / California / Orange County
Weather alerts in Orange County, California, 2012
69 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Orange County and its neighbors
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- Alerts
- 69
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 28
- Busiest month
- January16 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 13, 20128 alerts
Over time
By month
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 5, 8:53 PM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 31 hr |
| Jan 6, 1:25 PM PST | Fire Weather Watch | SGX | 14 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:28 AM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 32 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:28 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 37 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:37 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 38 hr |
| Jan 12, 1:10 PM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 24 hr |
| Jan 12, 1:20 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 27 hr |
| Jan 22, 8:04 PM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 22 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:24 PM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 39 hr |
| Jan 23, 6:51 PM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 45 hr |
| Jan 25, 8:56 PM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 29 hr |
| Jan 26, 1:18 PM PST | Fire Weather Watch | SGX | 21 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:38 PM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 6 hr |
| Jan 27, 2:02 AM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 35 hr |
| Jan 27, 2:02 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 56 hr |
| Jan 27, 10:36 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 47 hr |
| Feb 2, 1:54 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 35 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:36 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 33 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:32 PM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 28 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:35 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 25 hr |
| Feb 21, 5:33 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 28 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:20 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 25 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:49 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 52 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:45 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | SGX | 21 hr |
| Feb 29, 9:53 PM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 24 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:45 PM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 40 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:55 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:14 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | SGX | 3 days |
| Mar 16, 1:40 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | SGX | 55 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:08 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | SGX | 48 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:23 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | SGX | 34 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:04 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | SGX | 43 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 55 min |
| Apr 13, 1:50 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | 25 min |
| Apr 13, 2:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 62 min |
| Apr 13, 2:14 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | 106 min |
| Apr 13, 2:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 56 min |
| Apr 13, 3:07 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | 113 min |
| Apr 13, 3:25 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 5 min |
| Jul 11, 2:15 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | SGX | 55 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | 42 min |
| Sep 9, 2:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | SGX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SGX | 50 min |
| Sep 10, 3:07 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 53 min |
| Oct 11, 8:51 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | 2 hr |
| Oct 11, 9:27 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 48 min |
| Oct 11, 9:51 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 24 min |
| Oct 11, 10:40 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | SGX | 3 hr |
| Oct 11, 4:54 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 51 min |
| Oct 12, 9:38 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | SGX | 37 min |
| Oct 23, 1:25 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | SGX | 39 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:51 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SGX | 24 hr |
| Oct 24, 1:11 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | SGX | 49 hr |
| Oct 24, 1:40 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 3 days |
| Oct 26, 4:15 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | SGX | 32 hr |
| Nov 1, 6:37 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | SGX | 2 hr |
| Nov 2, 1:14 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SGX | 38 hr |
| Nov 3, 1:04 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 14 hr |
| Nov 12, 3:25 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 5 hr |
| Nov 29, 10:34 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | SGX | 11 hr |
| Dec 1, 5:03 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | SGX | 17 hr |
| Dec 7, 11:07 AM PST | High Wind Watch | SGX | 26 hr |
| Dec 7, 11:25 AM PST | Fire Weather Watch | SGX | 26 hr |
| Dec 8, 1:20 PM PST | High Wind Warning | SGX | 14 hr |
| Dec 8, 1:35 PM PST | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 38 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:30 AM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 33 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:45 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | SGX | 9 hr |
| Dec 17, 8:00 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | SGX | 13 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:36 PM PST | Wind Advisory | SGX | 24 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 | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 9 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 8 |
| High Wind Watch | 7 |
| Wind Advisory | 18 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 7 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
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. Rebuilt daily.