Alert archive / New Mexico / De Baca County

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in De Baca County, New Mexico

632 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

De Baca County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
632
Busiest year
202545 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
17over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 60% of hail, wind and damage reports in De Baca County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 20 minutes before, and 80% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200831971%786%14 min
200937684%2100%38 min
201090100%10%
20119189%250%27 min
201212650%250%26 min
201320480%333%25 min
201427870%1275%27 min
201537684%1050%20 min
201621481%863%11 min
2017321166%1573%18 min
201811191%425%7 min
20197186%30%
202090100%10%
202135683%367%33 min
202213377%367%14 min
202344686%650%33 min
202434488%20%
202545980%786%11 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 7, 8:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABQ47 min
Jul 31, 6:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ34 min
Jul 31, 5:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ46 min
Jul 4, 4:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ25 min
Jun 26, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ61 min
Jun 24, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ23 min
Jun 19, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ48 min
Jun 19, 6:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ46 min
Jun 19, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ31 min
Jun 19, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ38 min
Jun 15, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ29 min
Jun 15, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ30 min

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.