Alert archive / California / Ventura County

Weather alerts in Ventura County, California, 2011

27 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ventura County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
27
Warnings
11
Watches
0
Advisories
8
Busiest month
September8 alerts
Busiest day
March 20, 20115 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Ventura County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them.

Ventura County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings3167%0
Flash flood warnings5180%425%22 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Los Angeles, CA: tornado warnings10100%0
NWS Los Angeles, CA: severe thunderstorm warnings17288%2100%17 min
NWS Los Angeles, CA: flash flood warnings24675%1155%51 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 18, 6:13 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX6 hr
Feb 19, 6:06 PM PSTTornado WarningLOX39 min
Feb 19, 6:51 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementLOX39 min
Feb 25, 6:47 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX4 hr
Feb 25, 10:53 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX3 hr
Feb 26, 12:38 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX4 hr
Mar 20, 7:34 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX12 hr
Mar 20, 2:59 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOX61 min
Mar 20, 3:00 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOX3 hr
Mar 20, 3:02 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningLOX6 hr
Mar 20, 3:25 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningLOX18 hr
Jul 4, 3:22 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOX3 hr
Jul 4, 3:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOX65 min
Jul 5, 1:10 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOX110 min
Jul 5, 7:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX57 min
Jul 6, 1:28 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOX3 hr
Sep 10, 10:06 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX39 min
Sep 10, 10:58 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX47 min
Sep 10, 12:15 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX30 min
Sep 10, 12:45 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX30 min
Sep 10, 12:49 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX26 min
Sep 10, 5:42 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementLOX63 min
Sep 13, 3:11 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLOX64 min
Sep 13, 4:08 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningLOX3 hr
Oct 5, 10:31 AM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX4 hr
Nov 12, 12:05 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX3 hr
Nov 20, 9:53 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryLOX5 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

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012

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.