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Flash Flood Warnings in Riverside County, California, 2019

36 flash flood warnings in 2019. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Riverside County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
36
Busiest month
February10 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
February 14, 20198 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

17 of 36 flash flood warnings covering Riverside County in 2019 had a flash flood report inside them; 30 of 45 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 117 minutes after it went out.

Riverside County, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings361753%4567%117 min

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: flash flood warnings1236150%11583%86 min
NWS San Diego, CA: flash flood warnings361656%8448%97 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 17, 10:36 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Jan 17, 11:22 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 2, 2:17 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 2, 2:35 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 5:41 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX5 hr
Feb 14, 7:50 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 8:08 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 9:51 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 10:39 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Feb 14, 10:49 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 10:59 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Feb 14, 12:48 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Jul 23, 2:36 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Jul 23, 3:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR3 hr
Jul 23, 4:17 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX2 hr
Jul 23, 5:16 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX77 min
Jul 24, 1:52 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Jul 25, 2:20 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Jul 25, 4:40 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR3 hr
Sep 1, 11:10 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Sep 2, 1:35 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Sep 2, 3:38 AM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR6 hr
Sep 2, 1:38 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Sep 2, 2:38 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX3 hr
Sep 4, 3:11 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Sep 4, 3:18 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningSGX65 min
Sep 23, 11:35 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Sep 26, 12:29 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Sep 26, 3:03 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Nov 19, 8:07 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Nov 19, 8:20 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Nov 19, 11:09 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR5 hr
Nov 19, 11:17 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Nov 28, 3:41 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR4 hr
Nov 28, 6:52 PM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR8 hr
Dec 26, 8:35 AM PSTFlash Flood WarningPSR3 hr

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.