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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Miami, FL

June 5, 2005Palm Beach County, Florida

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2005-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 52 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 2005-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 7:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMFLPalm Beach2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Florida, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.