Flash Flood Warning for Eastern Grant County, NM
If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services now.
For real-time, official alerts and instructions for your exact location, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) as applicable. This article is a data summary, not a substitute for the issuing agency's live warning.
Areazine synthesizes this NWS weather alert directly from NOAA's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Eastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico until 10:00 PM MDT.
Read this weather record in 30 seconds
- Record type
- Flash Flood Warning
- Affected area
- Eastern Grant County, New Mexico
- Issued
- September 8, 2026
- Issuing authority
- NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM
Flood notices turn on location and timing. Treat the named area as this record's scope; do not assume nearby counties, parishes, or waterways were included.
Record status: publication date is recent, but current status is not stored on this page. Check the issuing agency's live warning service before acting because warnings can be updated, narrowed, or cancelled.
Alert Details
Flash Flood Warning issued by NWS El Paso Tx/Santa Teresa NM. Effective from September 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM MDT until September 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM MDT. Severity: Severe. Certainty: Likely. Urgency: Immediate.
Affected Areas
Eastern Grant County in southwestern New Mexico, including Sherman and San Juan. Flooding expected at several low water crossings along highway 61.
What You Should Do
Be aware of your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads. Remain alert for flooding even in locations not receiving rain. Arroyos, streams, and rivers can become raging killer currents in a matter of minutes, even from distant rainfall.
Expected Conditions
Thunderstorms with torrential rain near Sherman and San Juan have produced over an inch of rain, leading to flash flooding.
Timeline
Alert effective September 7, 2026 at 7:25 PM MDT. Expires and ends at September 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM MDT.
Original source: NOAA Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Alerts
All Weather Alerts →Nationwide notices with similar length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this NWS weather alert: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (924 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to September 8, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this NWS weather alert.