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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

June 23, 2002Broward County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 23, 2002, 8:11 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, 8:11 PM EDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2002, 11:00 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), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2185 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 00:00Z on 2002-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
2185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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 240011
FFWMIA
FLC011-240300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CONTINUED THE

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

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 803 PM EDT...ALTHOUGH THE RAINS HAVE ENDED OVER NORTHEAST       
  BROWARD COUNTY...FLOODING CONTINUES FROM THE EARLIER HEAVY
  RAINS. NO ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL IS EXPECTED THROUGH AT         
  LEAST MIDNIGHT. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN OAKLAND PARK
  REPORTED NO CHANGE IN THE WATER LEVELS WEST OF INTERSTATE 95 
  AND NEAR WEST OAKLAND PARK BOULEVARD. IT WILL TAKE SEVERAL
  HOURS FOR THE FLOODING TO RECEDE.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 
ROADWAY ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR 
PONDS.

LAT...LON 2632 8009 2610 8011 2610 8029 2633 8020

.END

RADER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 10:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMFLBroward3 hr

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.