Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flash flood warning at Oct 10, 1989, 3:11 PM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 1989, 3:11 PM EDT (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 1989, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Volusia County, FL
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1056 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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FLC127-102315-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH FL
311 PM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DAYTONA BEACH HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
...VOLUSIA
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAINFALL APPROACHING 7 INCHES IS CAUSING FLOODING IN
VOLUSIA COUNTY AND A FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT.
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE
THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLOODING IS
OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO
NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT
ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS
THE ROADWAY. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL
ONE...ON FOOT. TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 10, 1:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH, FL
105 PM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989
...FLOODING RAINS CONTINUE IN FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES...
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN VOLUSIA AND FLAGLER COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA IS CAUSING STREET AND LOW LYING AREAS TO FLOOD WITH THE
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN SHOWING LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT ON THE DAYTONA
BEACH RADAR. OVER TWO AND ONE QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALL AT THE
DAYTONA BEACH AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR WITH THE TOTAL TODAY NEARING
THREE AND ONE HALF INCHES. RADAR HAS INDICATED AS MUCH AS 10 INCHES
OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN FLAGLER COUNTY MAINLY FROM MARINELAND TO
FLAGLER BEACH WEST TO PALM COAST AND BUNNELL. SOME ROADS ARE CLOSED
IN FLAGLER COUNTY AND OTHERS MAY CLOSE IN VOLUSIA AND FLAGLER COUNTIES.
THE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AND THE DANGER OF ADDITIONAL
FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID TRAVEL IF POSSIBLEi AND NOT TO TRY TO
CROSS FLOODED ROAD AREAS.Special weather statement, Oct 10, 1:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH, FL
105 PM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989
...FLOODING RAINS CONTINUE IN FLAGLER AND VOLUSIA COUNTIES...
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IN VOLUSIA AND FLAGLER COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA IS CAUSING STREET AND LOW LYING AREAS TO FLOOD WITH THE
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN SHOWING LITTLE OR NO MOVEMENT ON THE DAYTONA
BEACH RADAR. OVER TWO AND ONE QUARTER INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALL AT THE
DAYTONA BEACH AIRPORT DURING THE PAST HOUR WITH THE TOTAL TODAY NEARING
THREE AND ONE HALF INCHES. RADAR HAS INDICATED AS MUCH AS 10 INCHES
OF RAIN MAY HAVE FALLEN IN FLAGLER COUNTY MAINLY FROM MARINELAND TO
FLAGLER BEACH WEST TO PALM COAST AND BUNNELL. SOME ROADS ARE CLOSED
IN FLAGLER COUNTY AND OTHERS MAY CLOSE IN VOLUSIA AND FLAGLER COUNTIES.
THE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AND THE DANGER OF ADDITIONAL
FLOODING WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID TRAVEL IF POSSIBLE AND NOT TO TRY TO
CROSS FLOODED ROAD AREAS.Special weather statement, Oct 10, 3:02 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAYTONA BEACH, FL
300 PM EDT TUE OCT 10 1989
...FLOODING RAINS CONTINUE VOLUSIA COUNTY...
EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES IN VOLUSIA COUNTY WITH THE TOTAL TODAY
TOTALING NEARLY SIX INCHES AS OF 3PM AND MOST OF THAT TOTAL HAS
OCCURRED SINCE NOON TODAY. INDICATIONS FROM THE DAYTONA BEACH RADAR
ARE THAN A LARGE CLUSTER OF EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN IS CENTERED RIGHT OVER
THE DAYTONA BEACH AREA WITH ONLY A SLOW DRIFT TO THE SOUTH AROUND 5 MPH.
WITH THIS SLOW MOVEMENT...AN ADDITONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN IS
LIKELY DURING THE NEXT TWO HOURS BEFORE THE RAINFALL DECREASES TO
A REASONABLE RATE.
ROADWAYS ARE FLOODED AND SOME ROADS ARE LIKELY CLOSED. MOTORISTS ARE
ADVISED TO AVOID TRAVEL AND IF TRAVELING AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.
THE HEAVY RAIN IN FLAGLER COUNTY HAVE TAPPERED OFF BUT FLOODING WILL
CONTINUE FROM RUNOFF.Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1989Every flash flood warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.