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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 13, 2004, 12:37 PM EDT for Glades County, Hendry 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
- Aug 13, 2004, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2004, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Glades County, FL, Hendry County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -117 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 131642 FFWMIA FLC043-051-131930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1237 PM EDT FRI AUG 13 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... HENDRY COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA GLADES COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 1235 PM EDT...RADAR IMAGERY SHOWED HEAVY RAINFALL FROM EAST OF DEVILS GARDEN TO MOORE HAVEN...TO LAKEPORT. LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN GLADES COUNTY REPORTED TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN WITHIN MINUTES. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL HAS PASSED...BUT ADDITIONAL RAINFALL UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR IS POSSIBLE FORTHE NEXT HOUR WHICH WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING SITUATION. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MOORE HAVEN...LAKEPORT AND BRIGHTON SEMINOLE RESERVATION. A FEW MAIN ROADS WILL LIKELY BECOME IMPASSABLE WITH THIS EVENT. MODERATE FLOODING OF UNPROTECTED STRUCTURES OR BUILDINGS ALONG WITH MODERATE AGRICULTURAL DAMAGE ARE LIKELY. THE FLOODING WILL LIKELY BE SIMILAR TO THAT CAUSED BY TROPICAL STORM GORDON IN NOVEMBER OF 1994. LAT...LON 2665 8103 2667 8082 2857 8145 2841 8193 $$ EC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 11:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 1:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 21 min |
| Aug 13, 8:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 10:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 10:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Hendry | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 11:06 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Hendry | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 11:41 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 64 min | |
| Aug 13, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Glades, Hendry | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 12:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Glades | 43 min |
| Aug 13, 3:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MFL | Collier, Hendry | 25 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.