Alert archive / California / Tornado Warnings

Tornado Warnings in California, 2016

6 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
6
Busiest month
January6 tornado warnings
Busiest day
January 6, 20162 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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
Jan 6, 2:54 PM PSTTornado WarningSGXSan Diego20 min
Jan 6, 2:56 PM PSTTornado WarningSGXSan Diego19 min
Jan 13, 2:18 PM PSTTornado WarningSTOShasta, Tehama27 min
Jan 13, 2:22 PM PSTTornado WarningSTOTehama35 min
Jan 23, 2:36 PM PSTTornado WarningSTOTehama39 min
Jan 23, 3:14 PM PSTTornado WarningSTOTehama46 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20152017

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. Rebuilt daily.