Alert archive / California / Stanislaus County

Weather alerts in Stanislaus County, California, 2009

10 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Stanislaus County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
10
Warnings
2
Watches
0
Advisories
4
Busiest month
March4 alerts
Busiest day
March 2, 20092 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Stanislaus County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings20100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Sacramento, CA: tornado warnings010%
NWS Sacramento, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings310100%30%
NWS Sacramento, CA: flash flood warnings3167%250%46 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
Feb 23, 4:55 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO5 hr
Mar 2, 12:22 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO6 hr
Mar 2, 3:05 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO55 min
Mar 2, 4:00 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSTO30 min
Mar 3, 8:08 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Oct 13, 8:45 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO12 hr
Oct 13, 8:42 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySTO3 hr
Nov 27, 3:30 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO60 min
Nov 27, 4:41 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO64 min
Nov 27, 4:53 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSTO37 min

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.