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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

800 PM MDT MON AUG 13 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 930 PM MDT FOR GUADALUPE AND

SAN MIGUEL COUNTIES...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES 4 TO 6 INCHES OF 

RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN PARTS OF WESTERN SAN MIGUEL AND WESTERN 

GUADALUPE COUNTIES SINCE ABOUT 500 PM. MELTING HAIL CAUSES THE RADAR 

TO OVERESTIMATE RAINFALL AND 2 TO 4 INCHES IS A MORE REALISTIC 

ESTIMATE. THIS IS STILL MORE THAN ENOUGH TO CAUSE LIFE THREATENING 

FLASH FLOODING.



VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING OVER WESTERN GUADALUPE COUNTY AT 

745 PM. SERIOUS FLASH FLOODING OF ARROYOS AND LOW WATER CROSSINGS 

WILL RESULT FROM THE CONTINUED DOWNPOURS. HIGHWAYS 219 AND 54 ARE 

THEATENED.



IN WESTERN SAN MIGUEL COUNTY...THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE LET UP. THE 

STORMS HAVE MOVED ON TO THE CENTRAL PART OF THE COUNTY AND ARE STILL 

PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...HOWEVER THE STORMS ARE NOT SITTING COMPLETELY 

STILL LIKE THEY WERE FURTHER TO THE WEST.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL 

STREAMS AND ARROYOS...AS WELL AS POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH FLOOD WATERS AS MANY PEOPLE 

LOSE THEIR LIVES THIS WAY.

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