Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County

Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2011

68 weather alerts in 2011, 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 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
68
Warnings
22
Watches
0
Advisories
38
Busiest month
August30 alerts
Busiest day
July 27, 20113 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Los Alamos County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings22673%367%39 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings20100%10%
NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings741382%6329%17 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings711776%3171%46 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 27, 2:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 29, 3:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ50 min
Jun 29, 5:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ64 min
Jun 29, 8:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ39 min
Jul 3, 12:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ109 min
Jul 9, 7:15 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 10, 2:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ31 min
Jul 11, 12:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 11, 1:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 14, 11:57 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 14, 2:10 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ4 hr
Jul 19, 12:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ32 min
Jul 19, 1:33 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ80 min
Jul 20, 2:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 20, 3:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 21, 12:35 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Jul 21, 12:52 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 22, 1:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 22, 1:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ4 hr
Jul 23, 1:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 24, 2:35 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 25, 12:31 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 25, 3:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ90 min
Jul 26, 6:08 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ112 min
Jul 27, 3:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Jul 27, 4:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ116 min
Aug 1, 6:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ29 min
Aug 1, 6:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Aug 3, 12:42 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 3, 6:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ117 min
Aug 4, 12:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Aug 4, 1:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ119 min
Aug 4, 7:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ113 min
Aug 5, 12:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Aug 5, 1:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 6, 12:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ4 hr
Aug 12, 12:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 13, 2:54 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Aug 15, 12:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Aug 16, 1:00 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 18, 5:42 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 20, 12:09 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ111 min
Aug 21, 3:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ114 min
Aug 21, 5:41 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ94 min
Aug 21, 6:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ117 min
Aug 21, 8:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ116 min
Aug 22, 1:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 24, 2:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ86 min
Aug 26, 12:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Aug 26, 1:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Aug 27, 1:14 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 27, 2:03 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ87 min
Aug 28, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ32 min
Aug 28, 5:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ117 min
Aug 28, 8:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 30, 1:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 1, 5:37 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ113 min
Sep 1, 6:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ89 min
Sep 2, 2:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 4, 5:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ97 min
Sep 4, 5:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 5, 6:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ89 min
Sep 7, 5:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Sep 8, 2:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 9, 10:11 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 15, 3:30 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 15, 3:44 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Sep 15, 5:47 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ88 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.