Alert archive / California / Tornado Warnings

Tornado Warnings in California, 2017

7 tornado warnings in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
7
Busiest month
March4 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 21, 20174 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 23, 5:06 AM PSTTornado WarningLOXSanta Barbara54 min
Mar 21, 12:48 PM PDTTornado WarningSTOStanislaus27 min
Mar 21, 1:15 PM PDTTornado WarningSTOStanislaus32 min
Mar 21, 1:18 PM PDTTornado WarningHNXMerced27 min
Mar 21, 1:39 PM PDTTornado WarningHNXMariposa, Merced, Tuolumne36 min
Apr 13, 3:11 PM PDTTornado WarningSTONevada, Yuba49 min
Sep 13, 4:12 PM PDTTornado Warning Tornado observedREVEl Dorado, Placer33 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

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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. Rebuilt daily.