Alert archive / New Mexico

Weather alerts in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

2,462 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rio Arriba County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,462
Warnings
652
Watches
493
Advisories
1,117
Busiest year
2022319 alerts
Average year
82over 30 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Rio Arriba County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
2014010%
201710100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087357%0
20094250%0
201240100%0
20134175%10%
20146350%7100%30 min
201510190%1100%19 min
201650100%0
201713192%10%
201840100%10%
20193167%20%
202111373%0
202230100%0
202413469%333%13 min
202540100%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%0
200910100%0
20109367%1100%4 min
201118572%10%
20128275%367%106 min
201316569%650%23 min
20146267%333%103 min
201550100%10%
20166433%989%32 min
201710100%0
201840100%0
201910100%0
202020100%0
20214250%1100%6 min
202210370%2100%74 min
202310100%0
20247186%3100%192 min
20257271%2100%38 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 18, 6:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ2 hr
Sep 18, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ48 min
Sep 17, 5:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Sep 15, 3:48 PM MDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatABQ4 hr
Sep 15, 3:27 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Sep 14, 1:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ26 min
Aug 31, 5:57 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 28, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ27 min
Jul 24, 4:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 24, 3:53 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 22, 6:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Jul 21, 3:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr

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.