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Winter Storm Watches in California, 2016

55 winter storm watches 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 winter storm watches reaches back to 2005.

Winter Storm Watches by county

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

Winter Storm Watches
55
Busiest month
January24 winter storm watches
Busiest day
January 3, 20166 winter storm watches

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 3, 4:09 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino33 hr
Jan 3, 4:28 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchLOX30 hr
Jan 3, 12:37 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO14 hr
Jan 3, 1:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX23 hr
Jan 3, 2:02 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo25 hr
Jan 3, 2:31 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer13 hr
Jan 3, 4:17 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou11 hr
Jan 4, 1:35 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSGXSan Diego24 hr
Jan 4, 2:33 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo12 hr
Jan 4, 2:39 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer23 hr
Jan 5, 4:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchEKA9 hr
Jan 11, 3:30 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO36 hr
Jan 11, 1:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou15 hr
Jan 13, 1:15 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchEKA26 hr
Jan 15, 4:20 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRModoc11 hr
Jan 18, 4:28 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou11 hr
Jan 20, 3:03 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO21 hr
Jan 21, 4:52 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX7 hr
Jan 27, 1:51 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX23 hr
Jan 28, 2:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer12 hr
Jan 28, 3:04 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo8 hr
Jan 28, 4:51 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO11 hr
Jan 29, 1:51 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego14 hr
Jan 29, 2:35 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer24 hr
Feb 15, 11:03 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX25 hr
Feb 15, 12:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO24 hr
Feb 15, 1:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer20 hr
Feb 16, 2:45 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo11 hr
Feb 16, 2:45 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou12 hr
Mar 3, 12:49 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX25 hr
Mar 3, 1:25 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO25 hr
Mar 3, 1:54 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Mono, Nevada, Placer25 hr
Mar 3, 2:01 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo13 hr
Mar 4, 1:59 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX45 hr
Mar 10, 10:36 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 1 more27 hr
Mar 10, 2:41 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO13 hr
Mar 10, 2:47 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou12 hr
Apr 21, 3:40 AM PDTWinter Storm WatchSTO12 hr
Jun 14, 2:23 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSTO23 hr
Oct 27, 12:25 PM PDTWinter Storm WatchSTO46 hr
Nov 17, 2:23 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRSiskiyou26 hr
Nov 25, 1:42 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino13 hr
Dec 6, 2:44 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRModoc, Siskiyou26 hr
Dec 11, 3:54 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO24 hr
Dec 11, 2:22 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer and 2 more24 hr
Dec 12, 3:30 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO72 hr
Dec 12, 2:00 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchMFRModoc25 hr
Dec 13, 12:41 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX24 hr
Dec 20, 8:47 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchREVAlpine, El Dorado, Lassen, Mono, Nevada, Placer and 2 more28 hr
Dec 20, 1:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchHNX23 hr
Dec 20, 2:56 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchSTO25 hr
Dec 21, 12:36 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchVEFInyo25 hr
Dec 21, 3:50 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchEKADel Norte, Humboldt13 hr
Dec 22, 4:12 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchSGXRiverside, San Bernardino, San Diego24 hr
Dec 22, 5:37 AM PSTWinter Storm WatchLOX21 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.