Flash Flood Warning in Grant County, New Mexico

Issued by the National Weather Service and archived by Claims Pages
EXPIRED 7/28/2025 2:45:00 PM (UTC) Urgency: Immediate Severity: Severe Certainty: Likely
7/28/2025 2:45:00 PM until 7/28/2025 5:00:00 PM
This is a life threatening situation. Heavy rainfall will cause extensive and severe flash flooding of creeks...streams...and ditches in the Trout Fire Burn Scar. Severe debris flows can also be anticipated across roads. Roads and driveways may be washed away in places. If you encounter flood waters...climb to safety.
FFWEPZ The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has issued a * Flash Flood Warning for... The Trout Fire Burn Scar in... Northeastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico... * Until 500 PM MDT. * At 245 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain over the Trout Fire Burn Scar. Between 0.5 and 0.75 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up to 0.5 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. Excessive rainfall over the burn scar will result in debris flow moving through the Trout Fire Burn Scar, into canyons flowing north towards Sapillo Creek, including Hill Canyon and Skates Canyon, and flowing east towards the Mimbres River, including Three Circle, Soldiers, Cottonwood, and Bear Canyons. Sapillo Creek UPSTREAM...or EAST of Lake Roberts Dam, and the upper Mimbres River will also be impacted. The debris flow can consist of rock, mud, vegetation and other loose materials. HAZARD...Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding in and around the Trout Fire Burn Scar. SOURCE...Radar. IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of areas in and around the Trout Fire Burn Scar. * Some locations that will experience flash flooding include... Lake Roberts, San Lorenzo, Allie Canyon, Cottonwood Canyon, Soldiers Canyon, Bear Canyon, Three Circle Canyon, Shingle Canyon, Mimbres River Preserve, Gattons Park, Hill Canyon, Mimbres, Lake Roberts Heights, Camp Thunderbird and Upper Mimbres Valley.
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