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NMC037-150515-



FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

1017 PM MDT SAT AUG 14 2004



...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY

IN NEW MEXICO UNTIL 1115 PM MDT...



NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL 

WAS CONTINUING OVER THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING IS 

EXPECTED.



AT 919 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR DEPICTED A LINE OF NEARLY STATIONARY 

THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WITH RAIN RATES OVER ONE INCH PER 

HOUR IN SOUTH CENTRAL QUAY COUNTY FROM RAGLAND TO SAN JON. LIGHT 

RAIN RAIN ALSO CONTINUED TO FALL IN TUCUMCARI AND LOGAN. 



AROUND 900 PM...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED FLOODING IN SAN JON...LOGAN 

AND TUCUMCARI...INCLUDING INTERSTATE 40 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 54. 



AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IS LIKELY OVER THE WARNED 

AREA THROUGH 1115 PM MDT...AND THE HEAVIEST RAIN SHOULD GRADUALLY 

SPREAD ACROSS SOUTHERN QUAY COUNTY BY THEN.  



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS. 



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