Weather alerts in New Mexico, 2008
2,127 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,127
- Warnings
- 850
- Watches
- 299
- Advisories
- 914
- Busiest month
- July494 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 18, 200844 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,127 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 403 |
| Tornado Warning | 40 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 18 |
| Tornado Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 64 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 7 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 114 |
| River Flood Warning | 3 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 25 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 742 |
| Winter | |
| Heavy Snow Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 16 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 24 |
| Snow Advisory | 10 |
| Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 35 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 6 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 74 |
| High Wind Watch | 55 |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 4 |
| Wind Advisory | 118 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 184 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 170 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- San Miguel County284
- Eddy County222
- Union County214
- Lincoln County207
- Harding County199
- Sandoval County164
- Catron County158
- Grant County156
- Lea County155
- Socorro County155
- Otero County150
- Quay County139
- Sierra County138
- Doña Ana County137
- Chaves County134
- Bernalillo County126
- Guadalupe County126
- Luna County121
- McKinley County120
- Cibola County120
- Colfax County113
- Valencia County110
- Roosevelt County110
- Rio Arriba County109
- Santa Fe County107
- Hidalgo County106
- Mora County102
- De Baca County99
- Torrance County98
- Curry County89
- San Juan County84
- Taos County49
- Los Alamos County37
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20072009
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.