Alert archive / California / Santa Barbara County
Weather alerts in Santa Barbara County, California, 2014
25 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 10
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 13
- Busiest month
- December13 alerts
- Busiest day
- December 12, 20145 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, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| Flash flood warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 4 | 50% | 70 min |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 1 | 67% | 4 | 25% | 5 min |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings | 24 | 9 | 63% | 36 | 47% | 48 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 23, 3:09 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 34 hr |
| Jan 23, 10:08 AM PST | Red Flag Warning | LOX | 29 hr |
| Feb 25, 7:34 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 32 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:18 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 60 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:02 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 7 hr |
| Feb 28, 6:42 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 5 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:49 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 116 min |
| Mar 1, 7:51 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:18 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | LOX | 32 hr |
| May 22, 6:09 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:19 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 4 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:16 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 12 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:10 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 42 hr |
| Dec 10, 9:16 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | 32 hr |
| Dec 11, 9:26 PM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Dec 11, 9:38 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 10:17 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 118 min |
| Dec 11, 11:04 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 86 min |
| Dec 12, 12:12 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 2 hr |
| Dec 16, 11:19 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 116 min |
| Dec 24, 4:25 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 3 days |
| Dec 24, 1:46 PM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 13 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:24 AM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 36 hr |
| Dec 25, 12:07 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 26 hr |
| Dec 26, 2:11 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 19 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 6 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
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.