Alert archive / New Mexico

Weather alerts in Valencia County, New Mexico

2,466 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Valencia County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,466
Warnings
752
Watches
463
Advisories
801
Busiest year
2022224 alerts
Average year
67over 37 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 Valencia 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
200850100%0
201730100%0
2021010%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088363%714%29 min
20094175%0
20104250%0
201110100%0
201220100%0
20136183%450%1 min
201420100%0
201590100%10%
201670100%10%
201720480%450%41 min
201812558%580%13 min
201910190%250%9 min
202011464%367%25 min
20215180%0
202210100%0
2023110%0
20246183%10%
202513562%3100%16 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084250%367%40 min
20103167%2100%19 min
201120100%0
20135180%0
201420100%0
20178450%4100%58 min
20182150%1100%20 min
201910100%0
20215260%1100%10 min
202220100%10%
202310100%0
202460100%0
202510370%367%63 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 25, 3:11 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ4 hr
Sep 19, 6:50 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ115 min
Sep 19, 5:47 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ118 min
Sep 19, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ17 min
Sep 19, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ46 min
Sep 19, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ47 min
Sep 19, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ46 min
Sep 19, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ48 min
Sep 19, 2:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ40 min
Sep 19, 1:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABQ30 min
Sep 14, 5:43 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ3 hr
Aug 19, 7:16 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningABQ91 min

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.