Alert archive / New Mexico / Taos County

Weather alerts in Taos County, New Mexico, 2012

21 weather alerts in 2012, 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
21
Warnings
4
Watches
0
Advisories
5
Busiest month
August6 alerts
Busiest day
October 12, 20124 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Taos County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings40100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Albuquerque, NM: tornado warnings6183%333%12 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: severe thunderstorm warnings1574174%9465%22 min
NWS Albuquerque, NM: flash flood warnings471274%2756%58 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
Apr 11, 1:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Apr 11, 1:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ37 min
May 12, 12:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ28 min
May 12, 3:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 3, 1:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 12, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ65 min
Jun 12, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ49 min
Jul 1, 12:54 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ3 hr
Jul 11, 3:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ47 min
Jul 11, 3:51 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ114 min
Jul 18, 12:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ17 min
Aug 2, 5:34 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ116 min
Aug 6, 4:03 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ87 min
Aug 16, 2:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ11 min
Aug 16, 2:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ29 min
Aug 16, 3:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryABQ87 min
Aug 17, 2:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementABQ26 min
Oct 12, 12:03 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Oct 12, 2:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ27 min
Oct 12, 5:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ45 min
Oct 12, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ24 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.