Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 28, 2004, 2:35 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 115 min. 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 28, 2004, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 28, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 281837 FFWMIA FLC086-282030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 235 PM EDT TUE SEP 28 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 232 PM EDT...THE METRO MIAMI-DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN MIAMI METRO AREA...ESPECIALLY ACROSS KENDALE LAKES AND KENDALL. OFFICIALS REPORTED SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF STREETS WEST OF 132ND AVENUE BETWEEN SW 200TH STREET AND SW 8TH STREET. THUNDERSTORMS ARE NEARLY STATIONARY OVER THE KENDALE LAKES AND WEST KENDALL AREA...WITH HEAVY RAIN FALLING. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF 1 TO 3 INCHES IS EXPECTED. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO 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. LAT...LON 2564 8059 2558 8044 2568 8029 2582 8049 $$ DG
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMFL 281948 FFSMIA FLC086-282030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTION FOR CODING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 345 PM EDT TUE SEP 28 2004 ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR PORTIONS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY... MIAMI DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO INDICATE VERY HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER NORTH CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN THE KENDALE LAKES VICINITY. SEVERAL PUBLIC CONTACTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED REPORTING SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING IN THE REGION FROM KENDALE LAKES TO RICHMOND HEIGHTS. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT FIVE TO SIX INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN THIS AREA IN THE PAST FOUR HOURS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP TO THE WEST AND MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE SAME REGION WITH AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN POSSIBLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. $$ KB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Broward | 28 min |
| Sep 28, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 57 min | |
| Sep 28, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 90 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.