Alert archive / California / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2023

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in California, March 2023

29 severe thunderstorm warnings in March 2023. 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 March 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
29
Busiest day
March 11, 20235 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
Mar 6, 3:49 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Glenn41 min
Mar 6, 4:42 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Glenn48 min
Mar 6, 5:21 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOTehama24 min
Mar 6, 5:26 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Tehama18 min
Mar 11, 12:42 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOSan Joaquin, Stanislaus63 min
Mar 11, 1:32 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOCalaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne10 min
Mar 11, 1:46 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOCalaveras, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tuolumne59 min
Mar 11, 3:09 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOCalaveras, Stanislaus51 min
Mar 11, 3:23 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOCalaveras, Stanislaus, Tuolumne67 min
Mar 11, 4:08 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno37 min
Mar 12, 3:22 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Madera, Merced23 min
Mar 12, 3:44 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Madera, Merced31 min
Mar 12, 4:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Madera25 min
Mar 12, 4:58 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Madera32 min
Mar 12, 5:28 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Madera47 min
Mar 12, 6:56 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXFresno, Kings, Tulare49 min
Mar 15, 2:54 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino36 min
Mar 15, 4:23 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino22 min
Mar 15, 4:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSRImperial34 min
Mar 15, 4:39 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningVEFSan Bernardino51 min
Mar 21, 10:26 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego49 min
Mar 21, 11:00 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego15 min
Mar 21, 12:43 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatMTRMonterey62 min
Mar 21, 12:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatMTRSanta Cruz38 min
Mar 23, 5:18 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Tehama42 min
Mar 23, 5:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTOButte, Glenn55 min
Mar 29, 4:57 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningHNXMerced33 min
Mar 30, 9:47 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego43 min
Mar 30, 10:33 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSGXSan Diego27 min

By county

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

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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.