Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
220 PM MDT Wed Jun 25 2025
[Editor's Note: If you live below the burn scar, you can expect floods every time it rains on the burn scar. Be prepared.]
The National Weather Service in El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
The Trout Fire Burn Area in...
Northeastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico...
* Until 530 PM MDT.
* At 220 PM MDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain over the Trout Fire Burn Area. Between 0.2 and 0.5
inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to
1.5 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
Excessive rainfall over the burn scar may result in a debris flow
moving through the Trout Fire Burn Scar, into canyons flowing east
towards the Mimbres River, including Three Circle, Soldiers,
Cottonwood, and Bear Canyons. The Mimbres River may 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 Area.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Life threatening flash flooding of areas in and around
the Trout Fire Burn Area.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
San Lorenzo, Mimbres, Camp Thunderbird and Upper Mimbres Valley.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
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 Area. 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.
