Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Jun 5, 2005, 6:17 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 5, 2005, 6:17 AM EDT (10:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Palm Beach County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMFL 051021 FFWMFL FLC099-051115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 617 AM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 715 AM EDT * AT 613 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER BOCA RATON. LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT CONFIRMED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN HAS RESULTED IN FLOODED STREETS IN THE BOCA RATON AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT HOUR. 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. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN LAT...LON 2634 8023 2635 8008 2649 8004 2648 8021 $$ CHRISTENSEN
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMFL 051050 FFSMFL FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 646 AM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 FLC099-051115- PALM BEACH FL- 646 AM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 AM EDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY... AT 644 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER BOCA RATON AND DELRAY BEACH. UP TO 3 INCHES HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST HOUR OVER THIS AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL IS OCCURRING NEAR THE COAST. RAIN IS TAPERING OFF...BUT ADDITIONAL LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS WILL FALL ACROSS THE AREA OVER THE NEXT HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. LAT...LON 2634 8023 2635 8008 2649 8004 2648 8021 $$ CHRISTENSEN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Palm Beach | 2 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.