Alert archive / California / Shasta County

Weather alerts in Shasta County, California, 2012

23 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Shasta County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
23
Warnings
7
Watches
0
Advisories
8
Busiest month
November7 alerts
Busiest day
December 2, 20124 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Shasta County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings3167%0
Flash flood warnings030%

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings8275%1429%28 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings6183%729%24 min
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings110%1020%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 20, 7:35 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Apr 11, 1:46 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO44 min
Apr 26, 10:16 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO44 min
May 14, 3:26 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO42 min
May 14, 4:14 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 4, 4:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO46 min
Jun 4, 4:32 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO43 min
Jun 4, 5:50 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO55 min
Jul 23, 3:43 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO47 min
Oct 22, 1:11 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO49 min
Oct 22, 3:52 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSTO38 min
Nov 17, 4:29 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO46 min
Nov 17, 5:12 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Nov 21, 3:02 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Nov 21, 8:45 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Nov 29, 3:23 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO14 hr
Nov 30, 7:06 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Nov 30, 9:54 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO6 hr
Dec 1, 10:38 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Dec 1, 10:46 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Dec 2, 4:23 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO6 hr
Dec 2, 10:01 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSTO21 hr
Dec 21, 2:05 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 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.

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.