Alert archive / California / Tulare County

Weather alerts in Tulare County, California, 2013

21 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Tulare County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
21
Warnings
4
Watches
1
Advisories
6
Busiest month
July10 alerts
Busiest day
July 4, 20134 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Tulare County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings4175%425%138 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hanford, CA: tornado warnings010%
NWS Hanford, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings70100%60%
NWS Hanford, CA: flash flood warnings14379%1540%49 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 8, 4:27 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX63 min
Feb 19, 6:10 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementHNX35 min
Mar 7, 7:39 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Mar 8, 8:58 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX6 hr
Jun 11, 2:55 PM PDTFire Weather WatchVEF24 hr
Jul 2, 6:07 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX53 min
Jul 4, 1:03 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX57 min
Jul 4, 2:30 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX60 min
Jul 4, 3:37 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX38 min
Jul 4, 4:12 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNX3 hr
Jul 22, 1:56 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX64 min
Jul 22, 2:22 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNX3 hr
Jul 22, 5:12 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNX3 hr
Jul 23, 12:34 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX56 min
Jul 28, 1:10 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningHNX3 hr
Aug 19, 3:44 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX3 hr
Aug 19, 6:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX84 min
Aug 31, 1:28 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX4 hr
Sep 10, 4:36 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementHNX39 min
Nov 20, 5:07 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX12 hr
Nov 21, 6:36 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryHNX6 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.