Alert archive / New Mexico / Socorro County
Weather alerts in Socorro County, New Mexico, 2009
74 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Socorro County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 74
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 15
- Advisories
- 35
- Busiest month
- September20 alerts
- Busiest day
- September 17, 20096 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Socorro County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 1 | 67% | 1 | 100% | 14 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 100% | 49 min |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings | 16 | 2 | 88% | 2 | 100% | 6 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings | 288 | 57 | 80% | 118 | 81% | 24 min |
| NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings | 31 | 8 | 74% | 20 | 45% | 44 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 3, 1:54 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 40 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:13 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:13 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 28 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:08 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 16 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:08 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 23 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:08 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 28 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:16 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 29 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:32 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 24 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:18 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 17 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:55 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 25 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:25 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 17 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:26 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 21 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:51 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 27 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:11 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 14 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:11 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 25 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:25 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 15 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:16 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 29 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:26 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 17 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:05 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 47 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:05 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 37 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:50 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 40 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:23 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 30 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:56 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 24 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:06 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 29 hr |
| May 22, 12:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| May 22, 2:51 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 84 min |
| May 23, 7:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| May 28, 2:58 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 29 hr |
| Jun 23, 4:20 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 85 min |
| Jun 24, 3:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 12:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:04 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 86 min |
| Jun 28, 3:26 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 4:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Jul 18, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 23 min |
| Jul 18, 5:18 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Jul 18, 8:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 84 min |
| Jul 18, 9:55 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 110 min |
| Jul 21, 4:10 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 110 min |
| Jul 27, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 35 min |
| Jul 30, 1:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 4:28 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 5:59 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 91 min |
| Aug 23, 8:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 90 min |
| Aug 24, 10:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 11:21 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 114 min |
| Aug 25, 12:01 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABQ | 104 min |
| Aug 27, 4:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 85 min |
| Sep 3, 3:23 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 112 min |
| Sep 6, 3:07 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Sep 7, 5:30 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 90 min |
| Sep 9, 11:27 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 11:30 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Sep 11, 12:57 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 93 min |
| Sep 12, 3:33 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 117 min |
| Sep 16, 12:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 31 min |
| Sep 16, 1:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 118 min |
| Sep 16, 2:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABQ | 21 min |
| Sep 16, 3:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 35 min |
| Sep 16, 6:05 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Sep 16, 8:25 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 110 min |
| Sep 16, 10:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 10:22 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 113 min |
| Sep 17, 12:20 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Sep 17, 8:50 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 115 min |
| Sep 19, 3:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | ABQ | 33 min |
| Sep 29, 2:40 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABQ | 14 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:24 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 16 hr |
| Oct 20, 11:30 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Oct 20, 2:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Oct 20, 7:11 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ABQ | 2 hr |
| Oct 27, 5:43 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | ABQ | 13 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 | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 35 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 14 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 14 |
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.