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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2006, 2:28 PM EDT for Glades County, Florida. It was in force for 2 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2006, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2006, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Glades County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 3:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Palmdale, FL | THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF WATER ENTERED SEVERAL HOMES IN PALMDALE. REPORTED BY SEVERAL MEDIA OUTLETS IN FORT MYERS, WITH INFORMATION PROVIDED BY GLADES COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 742 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 KMFL 301830 FFWMFL FLC043-302030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 228 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... GLADES COUNTY IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 222 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATES THAT THREE TO FIVE INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE PAST TWO TO THREE HOURS. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PALMDALE AND LAKEPORT. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF TWO TO THREE INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA AS THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION ERNESTO PASSES THROUGH THE AREA. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. REMEMBER...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN LAT...LON 2678 8151 2678 8108 2702 8110 2702 8154 $$ KOB
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMFL 302027 FFSMFL FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 425 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006 FLC043-302035- GLADES FL- 425 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 430 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL GLADES COUNTY... AT 425 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW RAIN FALLING ACROSS THE AREA. HOWEVER...THE RAINFALL RATES HAVE DECREASED...AND SO FLOODING IS NO LONGER EXPECTED. LAT...LON 2678 8151 2678 8108 2702 8110 2702 8154 $$ GREGORIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 11:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 115 min | |
| Aug 30, 11:49 AM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 2 hr | |
| Aug 30, 3:51 PM EDT | Marine Weather Statement | MFL | 4 hr | |
| Aug 30, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.