Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County
Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2012
49 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 25
- Busiest month
- August18 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20125 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, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 12 | 2 | 83% | 2 | 100% | 74 min |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings | 6 | 1 | 83% | 3 | 33% | 12 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings | 157 | 41 | 74% | 94 | 65% | 22 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 47 | 12 | 74% | 27 | 56% | 58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 6:55 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 35 min |
| May 8, 7:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 13 days |
| May 12, 3:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 26 min |
| May 12, 3:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 34 min |
| May 12, 3:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| May 12, 4:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min |
| May 21, 1:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min |
| May 21, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 60 min |
| Jun 28, 12:29 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:29 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 111 min |
| Jul 5, 3:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 12:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Jul 9, 2:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 29 min |
| Jul 11, 4:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 111 min |
| Jul 16, 1:13 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 7:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 82 min |
| Jul 23, 2:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Jul 24, 1:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 26, 6:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 116 min |
| Aug 3, 12:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Aug 3, 12:54 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 75 min |
| Aug 3, 4:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 89 min |
| Aug 13, 3:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 16, 5:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 87 min |
| Aug 17, 4:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 29 min |
| Aug 18, 6:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 1:09 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 111 min |
| Aug 19, 1:56 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 12:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 2:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 7:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:06 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 84 min |
| Sep 10, 12:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Sep 12, 4:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Oct 12, 12:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Oct 12, 2:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 27 min |
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 | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 12 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 25 |
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.