Alert archive / New Mexico / Los Alamos County

Weather alerts in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 2018

30 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
30
Warnings
4
Watches
2
Advisories
8
Busiest month
August15 alerts
Busiest day
May 21, 20185 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, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings30100%0
Flash flood warnings10100%0

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings9544%1164%10 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings3296580%13765%24 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings1002080%4358%51 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
May 21, 11:41 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 21, 12:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 21, 2:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 21, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ46 min
May 21, 4:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 3, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jun 3, 12:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 3, 3:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 13, 4:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ25 min
Jul 23, 4:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ114 min
Jul 23, 6:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 27, 7:39 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 28, 3:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ2 hr
Jul 31, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ42 min
Jul 31, 7:07 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ113 min
Aug 3, 2:02 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ118 min
Aug 3, 2:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ33 min
Aug 5, 1:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ34 min
Aug 7, 1:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
Aug 7, 2:18 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ87 min
Aug 9, 5:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ27 min
Aug 9, 6:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ30 min
Aug 10, 3:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ44 min
Aug 10, 4:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ44 min
Aug 15, 2:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ36 min
Aug 17, 2:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 18, 12:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ25 min
Aug 18, 1:20 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ115 min
Aug 21, 2:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ50 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.