Alert archive / California / Sonoma County
Weather alerts in Sonoma County, California, 2018
41 weather alerts in 2018, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Sonoma County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 41
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 23
- Busiest month
- December9 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 6, 20184 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Sonoma County, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 5 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS San Francisco Bay Area, CA: flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 16 | 0% |
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 7, 4:06 AM PST | Flash Flood Watch | MTR | 45 hr |
| Jan 7, 4:33 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 46 hr |
| Jan 11, 8:44 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 11 hr |
| Jan 13, 7:41 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 65 hr |
| Jan 16, 1:34 PM PST | High Surf Warning | MTR | 3 days |
| Jan 23, 1:35 AM PST | Tsunami Watch | AAQ | 3 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:16 PM PST | Freeze Watch | MTR | 14 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:13 AM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 48 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:44 PM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 40 hr |
| Feb 28, 4:32 AM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 41 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:30 AM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 32 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:19 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 6:12 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:22 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | MTR | 53 min |
| Apr 5, 10:51 AM PDT | Flood Watch | MTR | 46 hr |
| Apr 6, 4:25 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 65 min |
| Apr 6, 12:02 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 118 min |
| Apr 6, 1:58 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 2 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:59 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 19 hr |
| Apr 12, 6:24 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 37 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:26 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 13 hr |
| Jun 21, 11:54 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 56 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:27 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | MTR | 18 hr |
| Jul 2, 1:47 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 5 days |
| Jul 22, 4:12 AM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 4 days |
| Oct 9, 1:41 PM PDT | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 3 days |
| Nov 8, 1:04 PM PST | Frost Advisory | MTR | 44 hr |
| Nov 21, 2:28 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 31 hr |
| Nov 26, 12:06 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 4 days |
| Nov 27, 12:29 PM PST | High Wind Watch | MTR | 24 hr |
| Nov 28, 12:12 PM PST | Wind Advisory | MTR | 25 hr |
| Nov 28, 10:36 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | MTR | 54 min |
| Dec 2, 4:50 PM PST | Freeze Warning | MTR | 11 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:57 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 53 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:25 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | MTR | 8 hr |
| Dec 14, 2:27 PM PST | High Surf Warning | MTR | 3 days |
| Dec 17, 8:47 PM PST | High Surf Advisory | MTR | 54 hr |
| Dec 21, 10:33 AM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MTR | 25 hr |
| Dec 22, 1:09 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MTR | 24 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:42 PM PST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MTR | 24 hr |
| Dec 29, 3:05 AM PST | Beach Hazards Statement | MTR | 15 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 7 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Warning | 2 |
| Tsunami Watch | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| High Surf Advisory | 4 |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 8 |
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.