Flash Flood Warning: Chaves, NM

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Flash Flood Warning — Chaves, NM Severity: Severe. Certainty: Likely. At 749 PM MDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 0.5 and 1.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts up 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 and automated gauges. IMPACT...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... Roswell. This includes the following highways... Highway 380 between Mile Markers 156 and 159. Highway 285 between Mile Markers 104 and 118.

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