Alert archive / Florida / Flash Flood Warnings in 2007
Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this flash flood warning at Sep 10, 2007, 3:19 PM EDT for Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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
- Sep 10, 2007, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2007, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
- Flood severity
- None
County Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:20 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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 2516 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 101920 FFWMFL FLC086-101945- /T.NEW.KMFL.FF.W.0006.070910T1919Z-070910T1945Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TEST...FLASH FLOOD WARNING...TEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 319 PM EDT MON SEP 10 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... FAR WESTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. AT 316 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. * THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHARK VALLEY OBS TOWER THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. NEVER DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. FLOOD WATERS ARE USUALLY DEEPER THAN THEY APPEAR. JUST ONE FOOT OF FLOWING WATER IS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SWEEP VEHICLES OFF THE ROAD. WHEN ENCOUNTERING FLOODED ROADS MAKE THE SMART CHOICE...TURN AROUND...DONT DROWN. THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. REPORT FLOODING TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MIAMI. OR YOU CAN ALSO CALL THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI DIRECTLY AT 305.229.4528 TO REPORT FLOODING. THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. DO NOT TAKE ACTION BASED ON THIS MESSAGE. LAT...LON 2568 8087 2566 8068 2548 8068 2549 8085 TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 180DEG 0KT 2557 8076 $$ BAXTER
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS72 KMFL 101949 FFSMFL TEST...FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...TEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 348 PM EDT MON SEP 10 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... FLC086-101958- /T.EXP.KMFL.FF.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070910T1945Z/ /00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/ MIAMI-DADE FL- 348 PM EDT MON SEP 10 2007 ...THIS MESSAGE IS FOR TEST PURPOSES ONLY... ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR WEST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY... THIS IS A TEST MESSAGE. DO NOT TAKE ACTION BASED ON THIS MESSAGE. LAT...LON 2568 8087 2566 8068 2548 8068 2549 8085 TIME...MOT...LOC 1919Z 180DEG 0KT 2557 8076 $$ BAXTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | MFL | Collier | 113 min |
| Sep 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 46 min | |
| Sep 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Glades | 44 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.