Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 115 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1998, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1998, 8:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 9:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Monroe | 44 min |
| Sep 24, 9:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 46 min |
| Sep 24, 9:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 44 min |
| Sep 25, 1:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Broward | 48 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.