Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Miami, FL

Issued

Aug 19, 2008, 12:15 PM EDT (16:15 UTC)

Expired

Aug 19, 2008, 2:51 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Miami, FL

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

None

County Palm Beach County, FL

The Miami radar (KAMX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:15 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.

000 
WGUS52 KMFL 191615
FFWMFL
FLC099-191915-
/O.NEW.KMFL.FF.W.0009.080819T1615Z-080819T1915Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1215 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS EXTENDED IN TIME THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WEST PALM BEACH...RIVIERA BEACH...
  LAKE WORTH...JUPITER...DELRAY BEACH...BOYNTON BEACH...

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 1210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
  CONTINUED TO INDICATE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN OCCURRING OVER 
  THE WARNED AREA. 

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ROYAL PALM
  BEACH...PORT OF PALM BEACH...NORTH PALM BEACH GENERAL AIRPORT...
  NORTH PALM BEACH...TEQUESTA...PALM BEACH GARDENS AND JUNO BEACH

THE JUPITER POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTED SEVERAL ROADS FLOODED
ACROSS THE AREA. SOME ROADWAYS THAT ARE FLOODED ARE...ALL OF 
CYPRESS DRIVE, CENTER STREET AT ORANGE AVE...RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 
STATE ROAD 811, AND STATE ROAD 5 AND OCEAN WAY.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO A SAFER LOCATION IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 2655 8003 2655 8004 2641 8006 2640 8021
      2696 8031 2696 8015 2698 8014 2698 8007
      2690 8004 2684 8004 2682 8002 2678 8002
      2678 8005 2675 8002

$$

DG

000 
WGUS72 KMFL 191851
FFSMFL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
251 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2008

FLC099-191900-
/O.CAN.KMFL.FF.W.0009.000000T0000Z-080819T1915Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
PALM BEACH FL-
251 PM EDT TUE AUG 19 2008

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EASTERN PALM BEACH
COUNTY...

AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
THAT THE HEAVY RAINFALL HAS ENDED. LOCAL OFFICIALS ALSO REPORT
THAT THE FLOODED ROADS HAVE DRAINED...WITH MAINLY NUISANCE 
PONDING OF WATER ON THE ROADS. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD 
WARNING FOR EASTERN PALM BEACH COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

ADDITIONAL ISOLATED HEAVY SHOWERS WILL AFFECT THE AREA OVER THE
NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. HOWEVER...FLASH FLOODING IS NO LONGER
EXPECTED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT TUESDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHERN FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 2655 8003 2655 8004 2641 8006 2640 8021
      2696 8031 2696 8015 2698 8014 2698 8007
      2690 8004 2684 8004 2682 8002 2678 8002
      2678 8005 2675 8002

$$

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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.