Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, September 1998

18 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 1998. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in September 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
18
Busiest day
September 2, 19987 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 31, 7:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino47 min
Aug 31, 9:08 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRImperial, Riverside47 min
Sep 2, 2:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXRiverside63 min
Sep 2, 2:57 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXKern48 min
Sep 2, 3:01 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXLos Angeles89 min
Sep 2, 3:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXVentura65 min
Sep 2, 3:30 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXLos Angeles90 min
Sep 2, 4:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXVentura62 min
Sep 2, 4:48 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOXLos Angeles72 min
Sep 3, 5:10 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTRSan Benito110 min
Sep 3, 6:12 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTRSan Benito53 min
Sep 4, 3:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOSierra45 min
Sep 7, 2:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino63 min
Sep 7, 2:53 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMTRSan Benito2 hr
Sep 8, 3:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRImperial48 min
Sep 9, 3:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRImperial38 min
Sep 9, 4:38 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRImperial, Riverside52 min
Sep 9, 5:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEKATrinity60 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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.