Alert archive / California / Santa Barbara County
Weather alerts in Santa Barbara County, California, 2015
45 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 45
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 12
- Busiest month
- November12 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 12, 20155 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, 2015
| 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 | 9 | 3 | 67% | 4 | 75% | 92 min |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 4 | 100% | 47 min |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings | 40 | 13 | 68% | 40 | 65% | 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 12:04 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 56 min |
| Mar 25, 5:09 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | LOX | 7 days |
| Mar 31, 8:56 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | LOX | 16 hr |
| Jun 10, 3:02 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 118 min |
| Jun 10, 4:32 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 118 min |
| Jun 10, 4:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:15 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 18 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:51 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:39 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:53 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 22 min |
| Jul 18, 2:20 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 53 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:05 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 8:52 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:44 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 61 min |
| Jul 21, 6:54 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jul 29, 9:07 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 25 hr |
| Jul 30, 11:49 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 5:13 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 92 min |
| Sep 16, 6:43 PM PDT | Tsunami Advisory | AAQ | 18 hr |
| Oct 14, 5:53 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 22 min |
| Oct 15, 12:44 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 61 min |
| Oct 15, 1:30 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:44 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:26 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Oct 16, 3:56 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Oct 17, 3:14 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 17 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:13 AM PDT | Coastal Flood Statement | LOX | 3 days |
| Nov 4, 2:07 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 19 hr |
| Nov 5, 8:20 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 12 hr |
| Nov 10, 8:01 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 13 hr |
| Nov 11, 2:41 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:09 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 57 hr |
| Nov 25, 12:18 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 21 hr |
| Nov 26, 5:34 AM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 9 hr |
| Nov 26, 2:12 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 11 hr |
| Nov 27, 3:57 AM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 8 hr |
| Nov 27, 12:07 PM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 26 hr |
| Nov 27, 12:07 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 20 hr |
| Nov 28, 2:10 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 18 hr |
| Dec 8, 6:20 PM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | LOX | 4 days |
| Dec 14, 9:55 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 11 hr |
| Dec 15, 2:21 AM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 12 hr |
| Dec 15, 1:55 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 | |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 8 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 8 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 5 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 4 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Tsunami Advisory | 1 |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 1 |
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.