Flash Flood Warning
NWS Albuquerque NM ยท US
Details
Flash Flood Warning Issued September 18 At 1:47PM MDT Until September 18 At 4:45PM MDT By NWS Albuquerque NM
- Event
- Flash Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Immediate
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
Overview
FFWABQ The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... West Central Sandoval County in north central New Mexico... Eastern McKinley County in west central New Mexico... * Until 445 PM MDT. * At 147 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1 to 1.5 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 0.75 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
Hazard
Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Mainly rural areas of West Central Sandoval and Eastern McKinley Counties.
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
Affected areas
- McKinley County, NM
- Sandoval County, NM
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Albuquerque NM
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~50s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2V0Z5CXTDVFBHQAB5Y2AMAQ
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.cb4c9f86e9d1eb963ac0cff8c9ca11a0bd7f7dc8.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Albuquerque NM
- AWIPS ID
- CAPABQ
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.2988
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | FFW |
| NationalWeatherService | FFW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FFWABQ |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS55 KABQ 181947 |
| flashFloodDetection | RADAR INDICATED |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KABQ.FF.W.0153.260918T1947Z-260918T2245Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-18T16:45:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- McKinley County, NM
- Sandoval County, NM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 035031 |
| SAME | 035043 |
| UGC | NMC031 |
| UGC | NMC043 |
- Polygons
- 35.59,-107.31 35.6,-107.3 35.64,-107.19 35.64,-107.16 35.59,-107.16 35.47,-107.31 35.59,-107.31