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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

622 PM MST WED MAR 7 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND

SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM MST WEDNESDAY

EVENING FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY



IN NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO

     SAN JUAN



AT 615 PM MST RAIN...WITH WET SNOW AT THE HIGHER TERRAIN...CONTINUED 

OVER SAN JUAN COUNTY.  LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS INDICATED SOME 

STREET FLOODING OCCURRING IN THE CITY OF FARMINGTON. ALSO A SKYWARN 

SPOTTER IN THE FRUITLAND REPORTED RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF THREE 

QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN EARLY THIS EVENING.



RAINS AND WET SNOW ABOVE 6000 FEET WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EVENING.

SATURATED SOILS AND RUNOFF MAY RESULT IN ROCKS FALLING OR MUD 

SLIDING ONTO HIGHWAYS.



DURING HEAVY RAINS...KEEP CHILDREN AND PETS AWAY FROM ARROYOS AND

DRAINAGE CHANNELS. NEVER CROSS FAST FLOWING WATER ON FOOT.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO TELL HOW MUCH

WATER IS ON THE ROAD...DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FAST MOVING WATER OF

UNKNOWN DEPTH.

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