Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 25, 2004, 8:53 PM EDT for Indian River County, Martin County, Saint Lucie 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 25, 2004, 8:53 PM EDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2004, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Indian River County, FL, Martin County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMLB 260054 FFWMLB FLC061-085-111-260500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 853 PM EDT SAT SEP 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MARTIN COUNTY ST. LUCIE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 850 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED PERSISTENT VERY HEAVY RAIN BANDS FROM DANGEROUS HURRICANE JEANNE OVER INDIAN RIVER...ST LUCIE AND MARTIN COUNTIES. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES INDICATE THAT TWO TO THREE INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED...AND AN ADDITIONAL TWO TO THREE INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. * AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL IN RECENT DAYS WILL BE ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE TO FLOODING...INCLUDING LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...ALSO AREAS ALONG RIVERS...LAKES AND CANALS WHERE WATER HAS RISEN IN RECENT DAYS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING. TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN IF YOU CANNOT SEE THE ROAD OR ITS LINE MARKINGS DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH THE WATER. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. ONLY TWO FEET OF WATER CAN MAKE MOST VEHICLES BUOYANT AND PRONE TO BEING SWEPT AWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MELBOURNE. LAT...LON 2696 8008 2780 8044 2756 8073 2695 8061 $$ GLITTO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 9:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Martin, Saint Lucie | 54 min |
| Sep 25, 9:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 min |
| Sep 25, 11:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Brevard | 62 min |
| Sep 26, 12:35 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola, Saint Lucie | 5 hr |
| Sep 26, 2:32 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | MLB | Indian River | 58 min |
| Sep 26, 12:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Brevard, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.