Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Miami, FL

Issued

Jun 5, 2009, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)

Expired

Jun 5, 2009, 8:30 PM EDT

In force

3 hr

Issued by

NWS Miami, FL

Area

Storm-based polygon

Flood severity

None

County Miami-Dade County, FL

The Miami radar (KAMX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 052132
FFWMFL
FLC086-060030-
/O.NEW.KMFL.FF.W.0002.090605T2132Z-090606T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
532 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST FLORIDA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...MIAMI BEACH...MIAMI...KEY BISCAYNE...
  CORAL GABLES...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED
  TO INDICATE EXCESSIVE RAIN FALLING ACROSS EASTERN MIAMI-DADE
  COUNTY...ESPECIALLY ACROSS MIAMI BEACH. A NATIONAL WEATHER 
  SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED CARS FLOATING IN SOUTH BEACH AT 
  THE INTERSECTION OF MICHIGAN AVE AND 11TH STREET. DOPPLER RADAR
  HAS ESTIMATED THAT 6 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN OVER SOUTH
  BEACH...WITH 2 TO 6 INCHES ACROSS ADJACENT AREAS.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ORANGE
  BOWL...LITTLE HAITI...EL PORTAL...COCONUT GROVE...OPA-LOCKA...NORTH
  MIAMI BEACH...NORTH MIAMI...MIAMI SHORES...LIBERTY CITY AND
  AVENTURA

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN
THE WARNED AREA.

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 2576 8013 2575 8014 2567 8015 2569 8019
      2572 8019 2573 8016 2574 8019 2573 8022
      2567 8026 2567 8028 2592 8028 2598 8013
      2597 8011 2584 8011

$$

DG

000 
WGUS72 KMFL 052321
FFSMFL

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
721 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 2009

FLC086-060030-
/O.CON.KMFL.FF.W.0002.000000T0000Z-090606T0030Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
MIAMI-DADE FL-
721 PM EDT FRI JUN 5 2009

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR
EASTERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY...

AT 716 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING FROM THE RECENT SEVERE STORMS
CONTINUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA. ALTHOUGH THE STORMS
HAVE ENDED...THE MIAMI BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT STILL INDICATED
THAT STREETS CONTINUE FLOODED ACROSS PORTIONS OF MIAMI BEACH.

LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO LITTLE
HAITI...EL PORTAL...OPA-LOCKA...NORTH MIAMI BEACH...NORTH MIAMI...
MIAMI SHORES...MIAMI BEACH...LIBERTY CITY AND AVENTURA

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 2576 8013 2575 8014 2567 8015 2569 8019
      2572 8019 2573 8016 2574 8019 2573 8022
      2567 8026 2567 8028 2592 8028 2598 8013
      2597 8011 2584 8011

$$

DG

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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.