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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL

June 23, 2002Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2002, 5:20 PM EDT for Broward County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 2002, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2002, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Broward County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 494 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
494 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KMFL 232120
FFWMIA
FLC011-240015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
519 PM EDT SUN JUN 23 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BROWARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 513 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER NORTHEAST BROWARD COUNTY FROM THE   
  FORT LAUDERDALE AREA NORTH TO DEERFIELD BEACH. THE HEAVIEST        
  RAINFALL OF FIVE TO SEVEN INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE ABOUT 230 PM.    
  THE MAIN AREAS OF CONCERN ARE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 595 AND EAST OF  
  HIGHWAY 441. MANY STREETS ARE FLOODED AND SOME OF THIS FLOODING    
  MAY MOVE INTO HOMES AND BUSINESSES. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO       
  INCHES WILL FALL OVER THIS AREA THROUGH 630 PM.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU 
ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO A SAFER LOCATION IMMEDIATELY. REPORT
FLOODING TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR THE NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 2632 8010 2606 8012 2607 8026 2631 8027

.END

RADER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 1:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL67 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2002Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.