Alert archive / California / Santa Barbara County
Weather alerts in Santa Barbara County, California, 2017
90 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 90
- Warnings
- 27
- Watches
- 14
- Advisories
- 38
- Busiest month
- January32 alerts
- Busiest day
- September 11, 201711 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Santa Barbara County in 2017 had a tornado report inside them.
Santa Barbara County, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 0 | 100% | 3 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 8 | 2 | 75% | 5 | 20% | 67 min |
Each office's whole area, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 0 | 100% | 9 | 0% | |
| NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings | 26 | 11 | 58% | 26 | 65% | 70 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 4, 4:03 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 117 min |
| Jan 4, 6:38 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:55 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:48 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 57 min |
| Jan 7, 6:02 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 118 min |
| Jan 7, 6:48 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 87 min |
| Jan 8, 2:16 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 20 hr |
| Jan 8, 7:22 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 9:32 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:51 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:37 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 113 min |
| Jan 9, 1:13 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 10, 1:56 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 21 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:27 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 108 min |
| Jan 11, 2:59 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 2 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:26 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 17, 9:23 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 35 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:29 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 2:46 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 48 hr |
| Jan 20, 7:50 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Jan 20, 8:53 AM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:41 AM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 40 hr |
| Jan 21, 11:17 AM PST | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 55 hr |
| Jan 22, 7:55 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 6 hr |
| Jan 22, 1:46 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 119 min |
| Jan 22, 7:40 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 50 min |
| Jan 22, 7:46 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 8:29 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 31 min |
| Jan 23, 5:06 AM PST | Tornado Warning | LOX | 54 min |
| Jan 25, 12:34 AM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 297 days |
| Jan 25, 8:12 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 13 hr |
| Jan 26, 1:47 AM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 296 days |
| Feb 4, 9:35 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 47 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:53 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:43 PM PST | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 68 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:02 PM PST | High Wind Watch | LOX | 23 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:22 PM PST | High Wind Warning | LOX | 33 hr |
| Feb 17, 5:02 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 12 hr |
| Feb 17, 12:33 PM PST | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:42 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:00 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | LOX | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:13 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | LOX | 24 hr |
| Jun 15, 1:50 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 11 days |
| Jul 4, 9:03 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 4 days |
| Jul 5, 3:47 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LOX | 3 days |
| Jul 9, 1:10 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 22 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:24 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 67 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:12 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 63 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:04 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | LOX | 66 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:31 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | LOX | 8 days |
| Aug 26, 5:31 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 28 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:59 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | LOX | 4 days |
| Sep 3, 2:08 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 2 hr |
| Sep 3, 2:38 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 3:38 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 52 min |
| Sep 3, 3:58 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 4 hr |
| Sep 3, 3:58 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 62 min |
| Sep 9, 5:38 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOX | 47 hr |
| Sep 10, 2:58 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 92 min |
| Sep 10, 4:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 4:03 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 4:15 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 4:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 53 min |
| Sep 10, 5:53 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 52 min |
| Sep 10, 6:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 6:45 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 30 min |
| Sep 10, 7:19 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 41 min |
| Sep 10, 7:20 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOX | 55 min |
| Sep 10, 9:52 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 83 min |
| Sep 10, 10:35 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LOX | 48 min |
| Sep 11, 12:17 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOX | 118 min |
| Sep 11, 2:24 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 36 min |
| Sep 11, 4:05 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | LOX | 40 min |
| Oct 6, 9:20 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOX | 52 hr |
| Oct 7, 4:03 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | LOX | 66 hr |
| Oct 8, 10:44 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | LOX | 43 hr |
| Nov 17, 1:31 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 18 hr |
| Nov 18, 12:42 PM PST | Frost Advisory | LOX | 20 hr |
| Nov 26, 8:14 PM PST | Wind Advisory | LOX | 42 hr |
| Dec 2, 7:41 PM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 42 hr |
| Dec 3, 2:36 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 17 hr |
| Dec 4, 1:28 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 19 hr |
| Dec 4, 7:34 PM PST | Freeze Watch | LOX | 18 hr |
| Dec 5, 1:17 PM PST | Freeze Warning | LOX | 20 hr |
| Dec 17, 7:49 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 13 hr |
| Dec 19, 8:32 PM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 15 hr |
| Dec 20, 7:48 PM PST | Hard Freeze Watch | LOX | 18 hr |
| Dec 21, 1:51 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 19 hr |
| Dec 22, 1:10 PM PST | Hard Freeze Warning | LOX | 20 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
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.