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WGUS45 KABQ 230036
FLWABQ
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM
636 PM MDT THU OCT 22 2026
...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD
WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVERS IN NEW MEXICO...
SAN JUAN RIVER AT FARMINGTON AFFECTING SAN JUAN COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.
CAUTION IS URGED WHEN WALKING NEAR RIVERBANKS.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/ABQ.
THE NEXT STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT NOON MDT.
NMC045-231800-
/O.NEW.KABQ.FL.W.0010.261023T0200Z-261024T2100Z/
/FRMN5.1.ER.261023T0200Z.261024T0200Z.261024T0911Z.NO/
636 PM MDT THU OCT 22 2026
..FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL SATURDAY AFTERNOON
* WHAT...MINOR FLOODING IS FORECAST.
* WHERE...SAN JUAN RIVER AT FARMINGTON.
* WHEN...UNTIL SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
* IMPACTS...AT 10.0 FEET, THE CURRENT EXTENT OF FLOODING ALONG THE
SAN JUAN RIVER IN NEW MEXICO HAS NOT BEEN OBSERVED SINCE BEFORE THE
COMPLETION OF NAVAJO DAM IN 1962. IN THE FARMINGTON VICINITY,
BACKWATER FLOODING ON THE ANIMAS RIVER AT AND ABOVE THE CONFLUENCE
WITH THE SAN JUAN RIVER IS THE MAJOR CONCERN. SEE FLOOD BULLETINS
PERTAINING TO THE ANIMAS RIVER. DOWNRIVER THROUGH SHIPROCK, MOSTLY
LOW LYING AND AGRICULTURAL AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO INUNDATION.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- AT 6:00 PM MDT THURSDAY THE STAGE WAS 8.3 FEET.
- BANKFULL STAGE IS 7.0 FEET.
- FORECAST...THE RIVER IS EXPECTED TO RISE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THIS
EVENING TO A CREST OF 8.9 FEET JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. IT
WILL THEN FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.
- FLOOD STAGE IS 8.5 FEET.
- FLOOD HISTORY...THIS CREST COMPARES TO A PREVIOUS CREST OF 10.2
FEET ON 06/29/1927.
- HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SAFETY/FLOOD
ALL TIMES MDT FLD OBSERVED FORECASTS (6 PM)
LOCATION STG STG DAY/TIME FRI SAT SUN
SAN JUAN RIVER
FARMINGTON 8.5 8.3 THU 6 PM 9.3 5.8 4.3
LAT...LON 3668 10781 3666 10808 3675 10868 3679 10866
3672 10783
GUYER
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