Weather alerts in New Mexico, 2012
1,823 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 1,823
- Warnings
- 546
- Watches
- 216
- Advisories
- 584
- Busiest month
- August302 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 21, 201250 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
1,823 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 | 265 |
| Tornado Warning | 9 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 19 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 70 |
| Special Weather Statement | 407 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 62 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 14 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 436 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 21 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 19 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 39 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 9 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 6 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 55 |
| High Wind Watch | 43 |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 10 |
| Wind Advisory | 91 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 123 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 111 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 5 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Eddy County183
- Lincoln County160
- Otero County160
- Union County156
- San Miguel County155
- Harding County147
- Sandoval County135
- Grant County124
- Lea County121
- Catron County120
- Quay County119
- Doña Ana County116
- Luna County113
- Sierra County113
- Curry County99
- Hidalgo County98
- Socorro County92
- Colfax County86
- Bernalillo County84
- Rio Arriba County83
- Santa Fe County81
- Chaves County70
- Roosevelt County69
- Cibola County63
- De Baca County62
- Mora County62
- McKinley County58
- Guadalupe County58
- Valencia County56
- Torrance County51
- Los Alamos County49
- San Juan County49
- Taos County21
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20112013
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.