Alert archive / California / Santa Barbara County
Weather alerts in Santa Barbara County, California, 2016
59 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 59
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 35
- Busiest month
- January16 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 31, 20168 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, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 6 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 5 | 2 | 60% | 1 | 100% | 15 min |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: tornado warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 4 | 43% | 52 | 35% | 34 min |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings | 24 | 7 | 71% | 29 | 38% | 62 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 5, 4:41 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 6:01 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 7:21 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 5, 7:45 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 28 hr |
| Jan 6, 7:35 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 6, 8:57 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 33 min |
| Jan 6, 9:32 AM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jan 6, 11:35 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 2:22 AM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | 34 hr |
| Jan 31, 6:46 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 9:16 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 44 min |
| Jan 31, 9:44 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 10:52 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 23 min |
| Jan 31, 10:57 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 31, 11:20 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 55 min |
| Jan 31, 11:34 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:34 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 37 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:45 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:46 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 119 min |
| Mar 4, 9:54 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 46 hr |
| Mar 5, 11:28 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 107 min |
| Mar 6, 1:06 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 114 min |
| Mar 7, 1:33 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 31 hr |
| Mar 7, 2:37 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Mar 7, 5:25 AM PST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 65 min |
| Mar 10, 5:37 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 34 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:06 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 114 min |
| Mar 11, 10:19 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 56 min |
| Mar 11, 11:24 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 66 min |
| Mar 11, 11:52 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:08 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 112 min |
| Apr 9, 8:21 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:02 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:09 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | LOX | 15 hr |
| May 5, 4:42 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| May 5, 5:27 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| May 6, 1:20 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 19 hr |
| May 6, 3:01 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:18 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| May 6, 4:18 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| May 7, 2:33 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 17 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:14 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOX | 68 hr |
| Oct 28, 1:25 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Oct 28, 3:18 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 87 min |
| Nov 15, 7:28 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 38 hr |
| Nov 17, 9:38 AM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 23 hr |
| Nov 20, 3:04 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 1:50 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 18 hr |
| Nov 26, 10:45 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 64 hr |
| Dec 15, 2:32 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 25 hr |
| Dec 15, 4:44 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | 41 hr |
| Dec 16, 5:29 PM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 10 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:28 AM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 30 hr |
| Dec 17, 2:03 PM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 24 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:27 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 19 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:58 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 14 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:40 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Dec 23, 7:39 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 111 min |
| Dec 29, 8:03 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | LOX | 61 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 | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 5 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 24 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 8 |
| Fire | |
| Fire Weather Watch | 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.