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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
621 PM MDT WED SEP 17 2025
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL COLFAX COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO...
* UNTIL 915 PM MDT.
* AT 621 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAIN
HAVE FALLEN. 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...
RATON, SUGARITE AND SUGARITE CANYON STATE PARK.
THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
HIGHWAY 64 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 350 AND 353.
INTERSTATE 25 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 451 AND 458.
LOW WATER CROSSINGS ALONG RATON CREEK AND CHICORICA CREEK MAY BECOME
IMPASSABLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN THERE ARE NUMEROUS LOW WATER
CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
LAT...LON 3693 10447 3690 10444 3688 10444 3687 10443
3680 10442 3676 10440 3681 10438 3683 10437
3689 10435 3696 10428 3698 10432 3698 10441
3697 10446 3696 10448
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED
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