Alert archive / New Mexico / Rio Arriba County
Weather alerts in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, 2016
84 weather alerts in 2016, 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 in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 84
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 49
- Busiest month
- August50 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20167 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Rio Arriba County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 5 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 6 | 4 | 33% | 9 | 89% | 32 min |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings | 12 | 1 | 92% | 1 | 100% | 11 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings | 211 | 29 | 86% | 77 | 53% | 13 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 45 | 13 | 71% | 35 | 57% | 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:36 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 36 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:01 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 44 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:30 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 22 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:30 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 22 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:08 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 21 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:39 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 41 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 37 min |
| Apr 22, 3:29 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 10 hr |
| Apr 22, 1:29 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 30 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:02 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 13 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:44 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 41 hr |
| May 15, 1:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 36 min |
| May 15, 2:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 33 min |
| May 15, 2:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| May 15, 3:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 23 min |
| May 15, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 23 min |
| May 15, 3:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 30 min |
| May 15, 5:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 27 min |
| Jun 4, 7:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 95 min |
| Jun 5, 1:30 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 3:36 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 37 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:36 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 37 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:27 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 29 hr |
| Jul 10, 4:39 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 39 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Jul 19, 9:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Jul 20, 1:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Jul 26, 1:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 84 min |
| Jul 29, 12:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| Jul 30, 2:38 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| Jul 30, 3:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 1, 4:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:44 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 91 min |
| Aug 1, 6:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 93 min |
| Aug 2, 2:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Aug 2, 3:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Aug 2, 4:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 2, 4:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 5:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 9:50 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Aug 4, 12:19 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 116 min |
| Aug 4, 2:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 38 min |
| Aug 4, 3:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 5:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 111 min |
| Aug 5, 1:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 89 min |
| Aug 5, 4:03 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Aug 5, 4:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 87 min |
| Aug 5, 5:36 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 84 min |
| Aug 6, 1:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 6, 2:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:09 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 8:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 116 min |
| Aug 7, 8:13 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Aug 8, 3:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 4:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Aug 8, 5:31 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 10, 10:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 13, 12:42 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:01 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 17, 12:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 110 min |
| Aug 17, 2:43 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 107 min |
| Aug 17, 4:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| Aug 18, 2:16 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 18, 5:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 109 min |
| Aug 19, 1:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Aug 19, 3:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 111 min |
| Aug 22, 1:52 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 113 min |
| Aug 22, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 3:45 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:46 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 119 min |
| Aug 23, 1:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 82 min |
| Aug 24, 2:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 87 min |
| Aug 24, 6:41 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 95 min |
| Sep 12, 12:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 63 min |
| Sep 16, 4:56 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 109 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 | 5 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 8 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 49 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 6 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 8 |
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.