Alert archive / California / Santa Barbara County
Weather alerts in Santa Barbara County, California, 2013
13 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Santa Barbara County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 13
- Warnings
- 2
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 8
- Busiest month
- December3 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 1, 20131 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Santa Barbara County, 2013
| 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 | 1 | 0% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 2 | 50% | 19 min |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings | 8 | 3 | 63% | 12 | 92% | 51 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 1, 3:28 AM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 307 days |
| Feb 6, 2:32 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | 54 hr |
| Feb 18, 1:46 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | 43 hr |
| Apr 7, 5:08 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 46 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:17 PM PDT | Frost Advisory | LOX | 18 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:42 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 93 min |
| Aug 30, 10:49 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 20 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:11 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 16 hr |
| Oct 8, 2:16 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 31 hr |
| Nov 4, 2:27 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 19 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:20 PM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 37 hr |
| Dec 4, 4:00 AM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 53 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:04 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 37 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
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.