Alert archive / New Mexico

Weather alerts in Taos County, New Mexico

1,538 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Taos County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
1,538
Warnings
335
Watches
337
Advisories
547
Busiest year
2022212 alerts
Average year
55over 28 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 Taos 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
2018010%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086183%1100%11 min
20097271%1100%54 min
201040100%0
201240100%0
201320100%10%
201430100%0
20155180%0
201620100%0
201740100%0
201840100%20%
201920100%0
2020020%
20217271%10%
202210100%20%
20246183%0
202520100%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
201010100%0
201510100%20%
2017010%
201830100%20%
202010100%0
202130100%10%
2022392049%30%
202325292%0
202430100%0
202530100%10%

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
Jun 26, 12:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ56 hr
Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ44 hr
Jun 19, 12:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ31 hr
Jun 15, 1:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ41 min
Jun 2, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ14 min
May 17, 12:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ33 hr
May 16, 12:04 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ33 hr
May 6, 2:34 AM MDTFreeze WarningABQ30 hr
Apr 29, 12:37 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningABQ57 hr
Apr 22, 11:42 AM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ32 hr
Apr 21, 12:56 PM MDTRed Flag WarningABQ31 hr
Apr 17, 1:22 AM MDTFreeze WarningABQ32 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.