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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBUQUERQUE NM

825 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2008



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UNION-

825 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2008



...FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM MDT FOR

NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY...



AT 818 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO

INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHWEST

UNION COUNTY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF DES MOINES. THE STORMS

PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE SOUTH AND

SOUTHEAST. FLASH FLOODING MAY IMPACT ROUTE 456 FROM FOLSOM 

NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH THE DRY CIMARRON SCENIC BYWAY TO 5 MILES EAST 

OF THE INTERSECTION WIT ROUTE 370. ROUTE 370 WILL ALSO BE IMPACTED 

10 TO 15 MILES SOUTH OF THE ROUTE 456 INTERSECTION...AND ROUTE 551 

WILL BE IMPACTED FROM THE INTERSECTION OF ROUTE 456 NORTHWARD TO THE 

COLORADO BORDER. AS MUCH AS 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN AND UP 

TO 1 ADDITIONAL INCH OF RAIN IS POSSIBLE BY 900 PM. LIGHTER RAIN 

SHOULD PERSIST FROM 9 TO 10 PM.



LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...

  RURAL NORTH CENTRAL UNION COUNTY...

  FOLSOM FALLS...

  DRY CIMARRON SCENIC BYWAY...



BOTH LOCALIZED AND DISTANT HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FLOWS

IN ARROYOS AND OVER LOW WATER CROSSINGS.



DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED LOW WATER CROSSINGS. MANY

FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES.



LAT...LON 3679 10341 3678 10347 3679 10356 3678 10357

      3678 10375 3683 10387 3688 10398 3700 10399

      3700 10341



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