Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County

Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2013

91 weather alerts in 2013, 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
91
Warnings
23
Watches
2
Advisories
44
Busiest month
September31 alerts
Busiest day
September 23, 20136 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, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings21576%0

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings40100%0
NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings1964378%14056%17 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings1292680%7060%87 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 14, 12:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ30 min
Jun 14, 12:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jun 14, 1:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ28 min
Jun 30, 3:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ34 min
Jul 2, 2:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Jul 3, 2:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 3, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 3, 6:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ116 min
Jul 5, 2:04 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ116 min
Jul 7, 2:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Jul 7, 6:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ118 min
Jul 8, 1:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 9, 4:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ83 min
Jul 10, 12:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ22 min
Jul 12, 11:25 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ110 min
Jul 12, 12:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 12, 4:14 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ91 min
Jul 13, 1:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 13, 7:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ117 min
Jul 14, 1:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Jul 19, 4:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ39 min
Jul 19, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ48 min
Jul 20, 5:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ30 min
Jul 20, 6:21 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ114 min
Jul 20, 7:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 20, 7:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ114 min
Jul 21, 3:49 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ116 min
Jul 21, 4:19 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ116 min
Jul 25, 4:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ119 min
Jul 25, 5:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 26, 12:01 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ119 min
Jul 26, 4:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 27, 3:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ113 min
Jul 28, 12:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Aug 1, 4:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ113 min
Aug 2, 1:24 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Aug 3, 2:44 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 4, 12:37 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ113 min
Aug 4, 12:59 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Aug 4, 3:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ119 min
Aug 4, 7:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ119 min
Aug 5, 1:59 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 5, 2:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Aug 5, 5:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 5, 6:10 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 5, 6:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ93 min
Aug 6, 1:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ119 min
Aug 8, 1:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ49 min
Aug 9, 1:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ117 min
Aug 9, 1:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ37 min
Aug 9, 2:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ113 min
Aug 14, 12:50 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Aug 17, 12:40 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ110 min
Aug 18, 1:29 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Aug 19, 2:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ37 min
Aug 19, 5:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ114 min
Aug 20, 4:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Aug 22, 4:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Aug 30, 5:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ33 min
Sep 1, 1:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ83 min
Sep 1, 2:26 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ94 min
Sep 2, 12:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 2, 6:56 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 3, 3:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ118 min
Sep 3, 4:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ115 min
Sep 3, 4:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ33 min
Sep 10, 3:38 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ6 hr
Sep 12, 1:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Sep 12, 3:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Sep 12, 3:47 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningABQ6 hr
Sep 13, 7:39 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningABQ6 hr
Sep 13, 11:03 AM MDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyABQ6 hr
Sep 14, 10:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Sep 15, 1:00 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 15, 7:26 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Sep 15, 7:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Sep 15, 8:05 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Sep 16, 1:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ113 min
Sep 18, 12:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ38 min
Sep 20, 5:23 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ112 min
Sep 21, 4:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ85 min
Sep 22, 11:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 22, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ29 min
Sep 22, 5:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Sep 22, 6:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ32 min
Sep 22, 6:21 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ114 min
Sep 22, 6:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
Sep 22, 7:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ28 min
Sep 22, 8:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ23 min
Sep 22, 8:41 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ64 min
Nov 4, 7:31 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementABQ29 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.