706  
WGUS75 KABQ 022337  
FFSABQ  
 
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM  
537 PM MDT TUE SEP 2 2025  
 
NMC007-033-030045-  
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/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/  
COLFAX NM-MORA NM-  
537 PM MDT TUE SEP 2 2025  
 
...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM MDT THIS  
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN COLFAX AND NORTH CENTRAL MORA COUNTIES...  
 
AT 537 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY  
RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 0.5 AND 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE  
FALLEN BETWEEN UTE PARK AND OCATE ON THE CIMARRON RIVER AND  
TRIBUTARIES OF THE CANADIAN RIVER. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO  
0.5 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. FLASH FLOODING IS  
ONGOING OR EXPECTED TO BEGIN SHORTLY.  
 
HAZARD...FLASH FLOODING CAUSED BY THUNDERSTORMS.  
 
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.  
 
IMPACT...FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS, URBAN AREAS,  
HIGHWAYS, STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER POOR  
DRAINAGE AND LOW-LYING AREAS.  
 
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLASH FLOODING INCLUDE...  
CIMARRON, PHILMONT SCOUT RANCH, OCATE, UTE PARK, CIMARRON CANYON  
STATE PARK AND RAYADO.  
 
THIS INCLUDES HIGHWAY 64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 290 AND 309.  
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...  
 
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD  
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.  
 
DO NOT CAMP ALONG STREAMS AND RIVERS. REMAIN ALERT WHEN HIKING IN  
STEEP, NARROW CANYONS. KNOW WHERE YOU ARE RELATIVE TO LOW SPOTS AND  
DRAINAGES.  
 
 
 
LAT...LON 3626 10520 3637 10518 3655 10521 3660 10521  
3663 10520 3658 10505 3652 10492 3647 10485  
3636 10483 3623 10486 3612 10487 3613 10494  
3614 10517 3621 10521  
 
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED  
 
 
 
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