Weather alerts in New Mexico, 2016
2,513 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,513
- Warnings
- 617
- Watches
- 156
- Advisories
- 784
- Busiest month
- August596 alerts
- Busiest day
- September 15, 2016109 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,513 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 | 336 |
| Tornado Warning | 17 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 9 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 53 |
| Special Weather Statement | 903 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 6 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 92 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 11 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 621 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 14 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 13 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 43 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 15 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 13 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 3 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 43 |
| High Wind Watch | 34 |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 6 |
| Wind Advisory | 93 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 95 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 85 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Otero County193
- Sierra County190
- Doña Ana County188
- Union County188
- Eddy County187
- Grant County173
- San Miguel County172
- Harding County155
- Luna County147
- Lea County138
- Bernalillo County129
- Sandoval County125
- Hidalgo County120
- Lincoln County120
- Quay County116
- Socorro County107
- Colfax County105
- Santa Fe County89
- Mora County88
- Curry County87
- Roosevelt County86
- Rio Arriba County84
- Catron County79
- Torrance County73
- Chaves County72
- Guadalupe County71
- Valencia County68
- De Baca County61
- Cibola County57
- Los Alamos County49
- McKinley County48
- San Juan County43
- Taos County25
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. Rebuilt daily.