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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED  
FLASH FLOOD WARNING  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM  
724 PM MDT THU OCT 22 2026  
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS EXTENDED THE  
 
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...  
NORTH CENTRAL CIBOLA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...  
CENTRAL MCKINLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO...  
 
* UNTIL 930 PM MDT.  
 
* AT 724 PM MDT, DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING  
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. UP TO 1.75 INCHES OF RAIN HAVE  
FALLEN. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP TO 0.75 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...  
GRANTS, MILAN AND SAN RAFAEL IN CIBOLA COUNTY.  
 
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 70 AND 88.  
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...  
 
TURN AROUND, DON'T DROWN WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS. MOST FLOOD  
DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.  
 
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE  
DANGERS OF FLOODING.  
 
PLEASE REPORT OBSERVED FLOODING TO LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES OR LAW  
ENFORCEMENT AND REQUEST THEY PASS THIS INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL  
WEATHER SERVICE WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.  
 
 
 
LAT...LON 3545 10790 3530 10799 3507 10802 3503 10779  
3531 10773 3543 10773  
 
FLASH FLOOD...RADAR INDICATED  
 
 
 
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