Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2004, 9:54 AM EDT for Palm Beach 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 5, 2004, 9:54 AM EDT (13:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2004, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:57 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 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 051400 FFWMIA FLC099-051700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 954 AM EDT SUN SEP 5 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 945 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN STILL OCCURRING FROM NORTH OF BOYNTON BEACH TO THE JUPITER AREA. THE RAIN GAUGE AT PALM BEACH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS INDICATED UP TO 10 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE LAST 24 HOURS. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE AS HEAVY RAIN BANDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HURRICANE FRANCES MOVES ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THIS RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE SPREADING OVER AREAS WHERE AT LEAST FIVE INCHES HAS FALLEN SINCE SATURDAY OVER METRO PALM BEACH COUNTY WITH ISOLATED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF EIGHT TO TEN INCHES. THEREFORE, A FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PORT OF PALM BEACH...NORTH PALM BEACH...WEST PALM BEACH...TEQUESTA... ROYAL PALM BEACH...RIVIERA BEACH...PALM BEACH GARDENS...JUNO BEACH AND HAVERHILL. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO A SAFER LOCATION IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 2665 8028 2665 8003 2696 8005 2695 8029 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 12:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 118 min | |
| Sep 5, 7:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 2 hr |
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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.