Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County
Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2008
37 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Los Alamos County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 6
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 21
- Busiest month
- August14 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 28, 20086 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Los Alamos County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.
Los Alamos County, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 1 | 67% | 1 | 100% | 8 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings | 38 | 3 | 92% | 10 | 40% | 22 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings | 300 | 61 | 80% | 124 | 70% | 23 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 69 | 31 | 55% | 63 | 75% | 50 min |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
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 alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| May 28, 2:28 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 28, 3:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | ABQ | 52 min |
| May 28, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 67 min |
| May 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| May 28, 4:47 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| May 28, 6:56 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 12:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jul 3, 5:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Jul 8, 6:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 88 min |
| Jul 15, 7:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Jul 18, 12:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Jul 18, 12:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| Jul 21, 12:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 91 min |
| Jul 24, 4:02 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 88 min |
| Aug 4, 6:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:24 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:47 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Aug 10, 12:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 53 min |
| Aug 15, 1:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Aug 16, 4:46 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 17, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 61 min |
| Aug 20, 12:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Aug 23, 4:48 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Aug 23, 5:07 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 113 min |
| Aug 24, 6:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 29, 9:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Aug 31, 4:14 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Aug 31, 8:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Oct 11, 1:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Oct 11, 2:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 26 min |
| Oct 11, 4:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 84 min |
| Oct 11, 6:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Dec 22, 5:40 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
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 | 3 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 21 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.