* WHAT...Visibility between one-quarter and one-half mile in
freezing fog.
* WHERE...Espanola Valley, Far Northwest Highlands, Santa Fe Metro
Area, and Upper Rio Grande Valley.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM MST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Low visibility could make driving conditions hazardous.
Roads may be slick due to a thin layer of ice from the freezing
fog.
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of central, north central, northeast, and west
central New Mexico, including the following areas, in central New
Mexico, Central Highlands, Estancia Valley, Lower Rio Grande
Valley, Middle Rio Grande Valley including the Albuquerque Metro
Area, San Agustin Plains and Adjacent Lowlands, Sandia and Manzano
Mountains including Edgewood and South Central Highlands. In north
central New Mexico, East Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains,
Espanola Valley, Far Northwest Highlands, Glorieta Mesa Including
Glorieta Pass, Jemez Mountains, Northern Sangre de Cristo
Mountains, Northwest Highlands, Santa Fe Metro Area, Southern
Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Tusas Mountains Including Chama and
Upper Rio Grande Valley. In northeast New Mexico, Northeast
Highlands. In west central New Mexico, San Francisco River Valley,
Southwest Mountains, West Central Highlands and West Central
Mountains.
* WHEN...From noon MDT today through this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Locally heavy rainfall at rates over 2 inches per hour may
result in rapid runoff and flash flooding. Locations where
the soil is saturated due to recent heavy rainfall will be
especially vulnerable to flash flooding, as well as locations
with complex terrain, urban areas, and recent burn scars,
including the Hermits Peaks/Calf Canyon burn scar.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
* WHAT...Storms will be capable of torrential rainfall at rates over
2 inches per hour. Locations where the ground is already saturated
from recent rainfall, as well as burn scars and urban areas, will
be especially susceptible to rapid runoff and flash flooding.
* WHERE...Portions of central New Mexico.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM MDT this evening.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Excessive rainfall from thunderstorms.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be
possible.
* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central,
northeast, southeast, and west central New Mexico, including the
following areas, in central New Mexico, Central Highlands,
Estancia Valley, Lower Rio Grande Valley, Middle Rio Grande Valley
including the Albuquerque Metro Area, San Agustin Plains and
Adjacent Lowlands, Sandia and Manzano Mountains including
Edgewood, South Central Highlands and Upper Tularosa Valley. In
east central New Mexico, Curry County, Guadalupe County, Quay
County and Roosevelt County. In north central New Mexico, East
Slopes Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Espanola Valley, Glorieta Mesa
Including Glorieta Pass, Jemez Mountains, Northern Sangre de
Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe Metro Area, Southern Sangre de Cristo
Mountains, Tusas Mountains Including Chama and Upper Rio Grande
Valley. In northeast New Mexico, Eastern San Miguel County, Far
Northeast Highlands, Harding County, Johnson and Bartlett Mesas
Including Raton Pass, Northeast Highlands and Union County. In
southeast New Mexico, Chaves County Plains. In west central New
Mexico, San Francisco River Valley and Southwest Mountains.
* WHEN...From noon MDT today through late tonight.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur
in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Excessive rainfall from thunderstorms
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central,
northeast, southeast, and west central New Mexico, including most
areas along and east of the Rio Grande Valley as well as the
Southwest, Jemez and Tusas Mountains.
* WHEN...From Sunday afternoon through late Sunday night.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur
in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Storms will develop over the high terrain during the early
and mid afternoon hours. Storms will then rapidly expand
during the late afternoon and evening hours across much of
central and eastern New Mexico as storms move southward.
Storms will be capable of torrential rainfall at rates over 2
inches per hour. Locations where the ground is already
saturated from recent rainfall, as well as burn scars and
urban areas, will be especially susceptible to rapid runoff
and flash flooding Sunday afternoon and night.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall is possible.
* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north central,
northeast, southeast, and west central New Mexico, including most
areas along and east of the Rio Grande Valley as well as the
Southwest, Jemez and Tusas Mountains.
* WHEN...From Sunday afternoon through late Sunday night.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Creeks and streams may rise out of their banks. Flooding may occur
in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Storms will develop over the high terrain during the early
and mid afternoon hours. Storms will then rapidly expand
during the late afternoon and evening hours across much of
central and eastern New Mexico as storms move southward.
Storms will be capable of torrential rainfall at rates over 2
inches per hour. Locations where the ground is already
saturated from recent rainfall, as well as burn scars and
urban areas, will be especially susceptible to rapid runoff
and flash flooding Sunday afternoon and night.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
* WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall will be
possible again Saturday.
* WHERE...Portions of west-central, central, eastern and
northeastern NM. These areas include the Continental Divide from
Catron to McKinley Counties, the northern mountains, the Rio
Grande Valley from Colorado to Albuquerque to Socorro, the
highlands from Raton to Ruidoso, and the northeastern plains of NM.
* WHEN...From noon MDT today through late tonight.
* IMPACTS...Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers,
creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- Stronger storms will be capable of torrential rainfall at
rates over 2 inches per hour. Locations where the ground is
already saturated from recent rainfall, as well as burn scars
and urban areas, will be especially susceptible to rapid
runoff and flash flooding Saturday afternoon and night.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
FFWABQ
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Santa Fe County in north central New Mexico...
* Until 1115 PM MDT.
* At 810 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain
have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.25 to 1 inch are
possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected
to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas. This includes
arroyos and washes draining into the Santa Fe River.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Santa Fe, Pojoaque, Tesuque, La Cienega, Pojoaque Pueblo, Nambe
Lake, Nambe Pueblo, Rio En Medio in Santa Fe County, Agua Fria and
Cuyamungue.
This includes Interstate 25 between Mile Markers 266 and 282.
This includes the following recreation areas...
Buckman River White Rock Canyon.
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT SATURDAY FROM 11 AM TO 9 PM
AREAWIDE DUE TO STRONG WIND, LOW HUMIDITY, AND AN UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM NOON UNTIL 8 PM SUNDAY FOR THE CENTRAL
HIGHLANDS DUE TO STRONG WIND, LOW HUMIDITY, AND AN UNSTABLE
ATMOSPHERE...
.Winds will trend stronger areawide today as an upper level
trough moves through the region steering the jetstream over
southern and eastern New Mexico. Widespread critical fire weather
is likely, with extreme fire weather conditions in many locations
east of the central mountain chain where wind gusts up to 50 mph
are expected with minimum humidities in the single digits. Haines
Indices will max out at their highest possible value of 6 in most
locations. In addition, a Pacific cold front will cross from the
west this afternoon and evening shifting winds out of the
northwest and west. In the wake of the upper level trough on
Sunday, northwest winds will be weaker but still gusty, and
potentially strong enough for another round of critical fire
weather conditions across the Central Highlands.
* AREA AND TIMING...Northwest Plateau (Zone 101), West Central
Mountains (Zone 105), West Central Basin and Range (Zone 109),
Middle Rio Grande Valley (Zone 106), Upper Rio Grande Valley and
Lower Chama River Valley (Zone 121), North Central, Sangre de
Cristo, Sandia, and Manzano Mountains (Zones 120, 122, and 124),
Northeast Highlands (Zone 123), and the Northeast and East
Central Plains (Zones 104 and 126) from 11 AM until 9 PM today.
* 20 FOOT WINDS...Southwest and west 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to
45 mph, except up to 50 mph east of the central mountain chain.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...Minimum values from 4 to 16 percent with
locally higher values in the mountains near the Colorado border
and mostly single digits east of the central mountain chain.
* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended..
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1PM TO 8PM MDT MONDAY FOR
WESTERN NM AS WELL AS THE MIDDLE RIO GRANDE VALLEY AND THE SANDIA
AND MANZANO MOUNTAINS DUE TO STRONG WINDS, VERY LOW HUMIDITY AND
AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE...
.Critical fire weather conditions are expected on Monday
afternoon across western and portions of central New Mexico.
Strong west to southwest winds will increase in advance of an
approaching disturbance and surface winds may gust near 50 mph
during the afternoon. Humidity recovery tonight will be poor to
fair which will allow humidity values to quickly bottom out close
to or within the single digits Monday afternoon. In addition, the
atmosphere is forecast to be unstable with excellent mixing.
Strong winds and low relative humidity values are also expected
across eastern New Mexico, however recent rainfall and ongoing
greenup will mitigate the critical fire weather concerns.
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a Red Flag
Warning...which is in effect from 1 PM to 8 PM MDT Monday. The
Fire Weather Watch is no longer in effect.
* AREA AND TIMING...Northwest Plateau (Zone 101), West Central
Mountains (Zone 105), Middle Rio Grande Valley (Zone 106) and
the West Central Basin and Range (Zone 109) from 1 PM to 8 PM
MDT Monday.
* 20 FOOT WINDS...West to southwest 25 to 35 mph with occasional
gusts to 50 mph.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...6 to 12 percent.
* IMPACTS...Any fires that develop will likely spread rapidly.
Outdoor burning is not recommended..