Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 25, 2005, 6:57 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, 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
- Aug 25, 2005, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2005, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 822 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 665 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS52 KMFL 252303 FFWMFL FLC086-260500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 657 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 100 AM EDT * AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF 3 TO 5 INCHES PER HOUR MOVING INTO KEY BISCAYNE AND CORAL GABLES. THE VERY INTENSE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN INNER BANDS OF HURRICANE KATRINA WILL SLOWLY TRACK ACROSS THE REST OF METRO MIAMI-DADE COUNTY THROUGH THE EVENING. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS TO REMAIN OFF THE ROADS. LAT...LON 2582 8009 2594 8042 2560 8045 2543 8016 $$ HANDEL
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS72 KMFL 260034 FFSMFL FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 833 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005 FLC086-260500- MIAMI-DADE FL- 833 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY... AT 812 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 5 TO 7 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER DOWNTOWN MIAMI...MIAMI BEACH...CORAL GABLES...PINECREST...KENDALL. RADAR INDICATES AS MUCH AS 7 TO 9 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER KEY BISCAYNE IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. LOCAL ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN LOCATIONS WHERE RAIN BANDS PERSIST FOR SEVERAL HOURS. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...AS WELL AS OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS. FLOODING OF LOW-LYING STRUCTURES WITHIN THE WARNED AREA IS POSSIBLE. CLOSELY MONITOR WATER LEVELS IN YOUR AREA AND TAKE ANY NECESSARY ACTIONS TO PROTECT PROPERTY. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. LAT...LON 2582 8009 2594 8042 2560 8045 2543 8016 $$ HANDEL
000 WGUS72 KMFL 260218 FFSMFL FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1017 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005 FLC086-260500- MIAMI-DADE FL- 1017 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR MIAMI-DADE COUNTY... AT 1012 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND LOCAL RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS INDICATED RAINFALL OF 5 TO 9 INCHES HAS OCCURRED OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS UP TO 14 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA. A FEW OF THE LOCATIONS MOST THREATENED BY FLOODING INCLUDE KENDALL...PERRINE...COUNTRY WALK...CUTLER RIDGE....GOULDS...AND HOMESTEAD. THIS IS POTENTIALLY A VERY SIGNIFICANT FLOOD SITUATION. THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN COULD RESULT IN EXTENSIVE FLOODING ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA...SIMILAR TO THAT EXPERIENCE WITH HURRICANE IRENE IN 1999 AND THE TROPICAL DISTURBANCE OF OCTOBER 2 2000. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...AS WELL AS OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS AND MAY IMPACT NUMEROUS STRUCTURES. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. LAT...LON 2582 8009 2594 8042 2537 8058 2531 8031 $$ HANDEL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 11:32 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Watch | MFL | Collier, Monroe | 27 days |
| Aug 25, 9:00 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.