Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 5, 2004, 12:53 PM 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, 12:53 PM EDT (16:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2004, 4:00 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), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:54 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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 051708 FFWMIA FLC099-052000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1253 PM 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 400 PM EDT * AT 1248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO AFFECT PALM BEACH COUNTY FROM JUST NORTH OF BOCA RATON TO THE JUPITER AREA. RAINFALL REPORTS ACROSS THE AREA INDICATED THAT AN AVERAGE OF ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 4 INCHES HAVE FALLEN SINCE 8 AM THIS MORNING. AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE AS HEAVY RAIN BANDS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HURRICANE FRANCES CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. PART OF INTERSTATE 95 AT FOREST HILL BOULEVARD WASHED OUT DUE TO RUNOFF FROM THE HEAVY RAINS. 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...OCEAN RIDGE...LANTANA...LAKE WORTH...JUPITER... JUNO BEACH...HAVERHILL...GREENACRES CITY AND BOYNTON BEACH. 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. 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 2645 8026 2647 8005 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, 9:54 AM 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.