How to find old information from Nov 19-24th 2002

[Kat Sprague]

I was trying to look up old storm information from the time frame of Nov 19th-24th, 2002 and for some reason I cannot find it.

I was driving up I-5 in California between Sacramento and Williams and saw rotation on a cloud and wanted to find out what watches and warnings there were for that specfic time frame.

I tried looking on NWS and just googling, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Skip Talbot]

SPC has archived products on their site:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/
Enter the dates into the textboxes and it will list any watches, outlooks, and reports from those days.

They also store some maps from noteworthy severe weather events. They don't have any events listed in the span of dates you provided, which means there weren't enough severe weather reports to meet their criteria to mark as an "event". California was listed for a December event of that year though:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/archive/events/021216/index.html

 

[Angie Norris]

There's also NCDC for storm reports.
Try www4.ncdc.gov/cdi-win/wwcgi.dil?wwEvent~Storm

Enter the state on the first page, then the dates you're interested in on the second page. If anything was reported on the LSR, it should be listed there.

If you're interested in the 12Z and 0Z surface and 500mb charts, those are available from the Daily Weather Map.
The URL is docs.lib.noaa.gov/.../data_rescue_daily_weather_maps.html

Also check the archives of the local newspapers.

Good luck and have fun with your research!!