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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Miami, FL

September 26, 2004Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2004, 2:30 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 4 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 26, 2004, 2:30 AM EDT (06:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2004, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
4 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), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2004-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 263 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2004-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 238 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
238 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS52 KMFL 260641
FFWMIA
FLC099-261000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
230 AM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 600 AM EDT

* AT 225 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
RAINBANDS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL OVER LAKE WORTH...WEST PALM 
BEACH...FLORIDA GARDENS...WELLINGTON...BELLE GLADE...AND OKEELANTA.

RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 8 TO 10 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED OVER 
THE WARNED AREA. THE RAIN SQUALLS WILL CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL MORE 
HOURS WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 2 TO 4 INCHES POSSIBLE...PRODUCING 
LOCALIZED STORM TOTAL RAINFALL REACHING 10 TO 14 INCHES. THUS THE 
WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 600 AM EDT.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING. THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS.

LAT...LON 2695 8011 2693 8060 2676 8068 2673 8087
      2637 8086 2640 8015

$$
RRH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 10:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningMFLPalm Beach4 hr
Sep 26, 7:24 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 9:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 11:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL98 min
Sep 26, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Sep 26, 7:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004

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.