Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 29, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT for Collier 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
- Sep 29, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2003, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMFL 292201 FFWMIA FLC021-300100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 600 PM EDT MON SEP 29 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS EXTENDED THE * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... COLLIER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 900 PM EDT * AT 549 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUING TO TRACK ACROSS COLLIER COUNTY. RADAR AND SATELLITE ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT UP TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. ADDITIONAL VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE MOVING INLAND FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO THROUGH THE EVENING. RAINFALL RATES UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR ARE EXPECTED IN AND AROUND NAPLES. WATER LEVELS WILL CONTINUE TO RISE. FLOODING OF LOW LYING HOMES AND BUSINESSES IS LIKELY. TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION TO PROTECT PROPERTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF ROAD FLOODING. AVOID DRIVING TONIGHT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. LAT...LON 2613 8191 2586 8155 2598 8127 2632 8153 $$ HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 29, 10:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 100 min |
| Sep 29, 10:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Sep 29, 11:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 65 min | |
| Sep 29, 11:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 3:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 3 hr |
| Sep 29, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 117 min | |
| Sep 29, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 34 min |
| Sep 29, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 36 min |
| Sep 29, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 85 min | |
| Sep 29, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 38 min |
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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.