Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 26, 2004, 12:01 PM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 6 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, 12:01 PM EDT (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Melbourne, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Brevard County, FL, Lake County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 KMLB 261604
FFWMLB
FLC009-069-095-097-117-127-262200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1201 PM EDT SUN SEP 26 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BREVARD COUNTY
LAKE COUNTY
ORANGE COUNTY
OSCEOLA COUNTY
SEMINOLE COUNTY
VOLUSIA COUNTY
IN EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 1159 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
VERY HEAVY RAIN AROUND THE CIRCULATION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE JEANNE.
THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS LAKE...SEMINOLE
...ORANGE AND OSCEOLA COUNTIES WHERE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF 3 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED. ACROSS BREVARD AND VOLUSIA
COUNTIES...ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES IN
OCCASIONAL SHOWER BANDS WILL CONTINUE TO THE EAST SIDE OF THE
CENTER OF JEANNES CIRCULATION.
STORM TOTAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS MAY REACH ABOVE 8 TO 10 INCHES
IN SOME AREAS WHICH WILL CAUSE ADDITIONAL URBAN AND RURAL
FLOODING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
PALM BAY...LAKE MARIAN...WINDERMERE AND CLERMONT.
RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS...LOW LYING
AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND
FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING
AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DRIVERS SHOULD USE EXTREME CAUTION.
IT IS EASY TO LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR VEHICLE AND HYDROPLANE. IS IS NOT
SAFE TO USE CRUISE CONTROL ON RAIN SOAKED ROADS.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST
FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS BRIDGES...
DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NEVER TRY TO
CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
LAT...LON 2765 8112 2784 8089 2785 8046 2860 8053
2957 8114 2916 8203 2834 8196
$$
VOLKMERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 8:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MLB | Indian River, Martin, Saint Lucie | 4 hr |
| 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 |
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.