Flood Warning
NWS Albuquerque NM ยท US
Details
Flood Warning In Effect Until 1230 PM MDT Thursday
- Event
- Flood Warning
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Likely
- Response
- Avoid
Description
What
Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.
Where
Southwestern Chaves County in southeastern New Mexico...
When
Until 1230 PM MDT Thursday.
Impacts
Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Expect many areas of slow moving or standing water.
Additional details
- At 1226 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Flooding is already occurring within and along the Rio Penasco in the warned area. Between 0.75 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. - Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1.5 inches are possible in the warned area. - Some locations that will experience flooding include... Dunken and Elk. - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Instructions
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
Affected areas
- Chaves County, NM
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Albuquerque NM
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~46s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M37RC4Q28A7XB6382PEP7X38
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.fc9ab90c9cca9b3f61a28105084aaae376302b31.001.1
- 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.658
- 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 | FLW |
| NationalWeatherService | FAW |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | FLWABQ |
| WMOidentifier | WGUS45 KABQ 231827 |
| NWSheadline | FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 PM MDT THURSDAY |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KABQ.FA.W.0006.260923T1827Z-260924T1830Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-24T12:30:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Chaves County, NM
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 035005 |
| UGC | NMC005 |
- Polygons
- 32.97,-105.32 32.97,-105.26 32.88,-105.12 32.88,-105.06 32.86,-104.98 32.85,-104.92 32.83,-104.84 32.78,-104.84 32.78,-104.93 32.79,-105.04 32.8,-105.11 32.81,-105.2 32.81,-105.25 32.79,-105.35 32.96,-105.35 32.96,-105.32 32.97,-105.32