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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED

FLASH FLOOD WARNING

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

757 PM MDT TUE JUL 22 2008



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBUQUERQUE HAS ISSUED A



* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...

  NORTH CENTRAL CIBOLA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO

  SOUTH CENTRAL MCKINLEY COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL NEW MEXICO



* UNTIL 1000 PM MDT



* AT 754 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED

  FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS NEAR BLUEWATER LAKE. RAMAH...

  EL MORRO AND PINE HILL ARE ALSO LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE FLASH 

  FLOODING FROM THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS OVERHEAD THROUGH 930

  PM MDT. THE STORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WERE MOVING TOWARD 

  THE SOUTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH. AS MUCH AS 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS

  ALREADY FALLEN IN THE BLUEWATER LAKE AREA. ALTHOUGH LESS THAN A

  QUARTER INCH OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED NEAR BLUEWATER 

  LAKE...VERY HEAVY RUNOFF IS EXPECTED INTO THE BLUEWATER LAKE AREA

  FROM THE ZUNI MOUNTAINS. THIS FLASH FLOOD WARNING INCLUDES I-40

  IN THE BLUEWATER LAKE AND PREWITT AREA...AS WELL AS STATE ROUTE 

  53 IN THE VICINITY OF EL MORRO AND RAMAH.



BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE SUDDEN AND

DANGEROUS FLOWS IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.



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

DANGERS OF FLASH FLOODS.



LAT...LON 3501 10865 3514 10860 3544 10816 3543 10800

      3532 10793 3514 10808 3486 10830 3492 10846

      3496 10855



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