00:00I am monitoring the ongoing river flood situation near the New Mexico-Arizona border right now.
00:06This is the Puerco River, and you can see this is obviously at flood stage right here.
00:11Normally this is a dry riverbed.
00:13This is from an abundance of convective rainfall the last couple of days out here.
00:18Supercell storms, large hail, tornado threat as well,
00:22and that threat continues today across New Mexico just off to the east
00:26as supercells continue to develop across this area.
00:30On the way out, we are monitoring the river flood situation here near the New Mexico-Arizona border.
00:36Definitely a lot of water out here in the desert,
00:39and this is because of the vigorous upper-level storm system.
00:43The warm sector has been energized by moisture off the eastern tropical Pacific with the El Nino in place.
00:49Rivers up into southwestern Colorado, northern New Mexico, and Arizona still at flood stage.
00:54The one up in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
00:57The Animas River up in southwestern Colorado is forecast to crest today at about 6 p.m.
01:02This river, the Puerco, is forecast to crest this afternoon.
01:06Some of the communities are getting impacted by these floods as well as it spreads out of the banks,
01:12flooding many of the properties around the area here.
01:16But this is definitely a flood-severe weather event.
01:20Combined, a textbook fall system here fueled by El Nino.
01:24You have a vigorous trough moving out of California, centered over Arizona today, out ahead of it.
01:29Instability, wind shear, plenty of bulk shear for supercell storms,
01:33and that threat continues tomorrow.
01:35See you tomorrow.
