Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County
Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2017
48 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 48
- Warnings
- 7
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest month
- June16 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 9, 20178 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, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 2 | 71% | 2 | 100% | 30 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings | 35 | 2 | 94% | 12 | 17% | 9 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings | 501 | 100 | 80% | 239 | 65% | 23 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 64 | 19 | 70% | 45 | 51% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 5:12 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 32 min |
| May 9, 9:55 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 9, 11:15 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| May 9, 11:32 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 43 min |
| May 9, 12:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 62 min |
| May 9, 1:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 43 min |
| May 9, 5:24 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| May 9, 5:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 42 min |
| May 29, 1:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 12:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 32 min |
| Jun 6, 12:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 24 min |
| Jun 6, 12:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min |
| Jun 6, 12:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 3:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jun 19, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 1:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 38 min |
| Jun 25, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 42 min |
| Jun 25, 4:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 39 min |
| Jun 25, 5:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Jun 25, 5:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 21 min |
| Jun 26, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 4:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 6:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jul 9, 2:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 35 min |
| Jul 10, 7:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 29 min |
| Jul 10, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 28 min |
| Jul 25, 1:32 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Jul 25, 3:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Jul 27, 12:10 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:52 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 1:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min |
| Aug 23, 2:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 24 min |
| Aug 27, 2:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 5:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 1:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Sep 3, 6:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 26 min |
| Sep 27, 5:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 8:34 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 116 min |
| Sep 27, 10:26 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Sep 29, 2:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 26 min |
| Sep 30, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Oct 4, 12:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 5, 12:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 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 | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 10 |
| Special Weather Statement | 21 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 9 |
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.