1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 11, 1:40 PM EST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 240 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 .DISCUSSION...LITTLE CHANGES IN SYNOPTIC PATTERN WILL TAKE PLACE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. SOUTH FLORIDA WEATHER WILL CONTINUE TO BE DOMINATED THE REST OF THE WEEK BY THE SAME ATLANTIC RIDGE THAT HAS CONTROLLED LOCAL AREA WEATHER OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE WILL REMAIN NEARLY CONSTANT...OR EVEN DECREASE OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS...AS THERE IS SLIGHTLY DRIER AIR UPSTREAM OF THE AREA. THIS IS EVIDENCED BY THIS MORNINGS SOUNDINGS OF MIAMI AND NASSAU...WHERE MORNING PWATS WERE AT 1.44 AND 1.30 INCHES RESPECTIVELY. ALSO...LOOKS AS THOUGH MID LEVEL CAP WILL STAY IN PLACE...AS H5 RIDGE ALSO REMAINS IN FIRM CONTROL THROUGH THURSDAY. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW K-INDICES BELOW 20 THROUGH THURSDAY...SO DO NOT EXPECT TSTORM DEVELOPMENT...AND VERY FEW AFTERNOON SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE STRONG FLOW WHICH WILL DISALLOW AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE FORMATION. THEREFORE...DECIDED TO DROP MENTION OF SHOWER/TSTORMS OVER CWA FOR BOTH TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY AFTERNOON. THERE WILL BE SOME SHOWERS OVER THE ATLANTIC WATERS OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...BUT ONLY KEPT 10 PERCENT POPS EAST COAST...AS THE SHOWERS SHOULD BE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN AND VERY BRIEF. GFS SHOWS H5 HEIGHTS FALLING SOME BY FRIDAY...AND THIS WILL GET RID OF THE CAP TO AT LEAST ALLOW FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF ISOLATED THUNDER OVER INTERIOR SOUTHWEST SECTIONS OF CWA FRIDAY AFTERNOON. THEN...MOISTURE FINALLY INCREASES BY LATE SATURDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...INCREASING THE CHANCES FOR SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THEN. && .MARINE...C-MAN STATIONS SHOWING WINDS OUT OF THE EAST IN THE 15-20 KNOT RANGE. GFS MAINTAINS THIS WIND FLOW PATTERN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. WEB CAM BEACH IMAGES DISTINCTLY SHOW THE EXPECTED DIFFERENCES...GIVEN THIS FLOW PATTERN...IN SEAS BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC WATERS AND THE NEAR SHORE GULF WATERS. NAPLES CAM SHOWS NEARLY FLAT SEAS AND THE WIND AT NAPLES THIS AFTERNOON IS ONLY AROUND 10 KNOTS. LAND EFFECTS TONIGHT WILL LOWER WINDS BY EVEN A FEW MORE KNOTS ACROSS THE GULF NEAR SHORE WATERS...SO ADJUSTED WINDS DOWN TO UNDER SCEC CRITERIA NEAR SHORE GULF WATERS FOR THE NEXT FEW NIGHTS. NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT CHANGES MADE TO COASTAL GRIDS/CWF. && .FIRE WEATHER...NO PROBLEMS AS MEAN RH WILL BE WELL ABOVE 35 % THE ENTIRE FORECAST PACKAGE. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 74 84 74 83 / 10 10 10 20 FORT LAUDERDALE 74 82 75 82 / 10 10 10 20 MIAMI 74 82 73 85 / 10 10 10 20 NAPLES 69 88 67 86 / 00 00 00 10 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. && 57
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 430 AM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA FLZ068-072-074-112200- BROWARD METROPOLITAN-DADE METROPOLITAN-PALM BEACH EASTERN- 403 AM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENMTS EAST COAST BEACHES... EAST WINDS OF 17 TO 22 MPH...ALONG WITH HIGHER GUSTS...WILL PRODUCE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF PALM BEACH...BROWARD ...AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES. LOW TIDE ODCCURS AROUND 900 AM THIS MORNING AT THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE MOST PREVALENT AT THAT TIME. BUT DUE TO THE WIND ALONE...RIP CURRENTS WILL BE A THREAT ALL DAY. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. FLZ063-066-067-069>071-073-075-112200- EASTERN COLLIER-GLADES-HENDRY-MAINLAND MONROE-PALM BEACH WESTERN- WESTERN BROWARD-WESTERN COLLIER-WESTERN DADE- 430 AM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DETAILED GRAPHICS CAN BE FOUND ON THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WEB SITE AT MIAMIWEATHER.INFO. FOR INFORMATION IN SPANISH, VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT ELTIEMPOENMIAMI.INFO. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A man drowned in a rip current at an unguarded section of beach near Collins Avenue and 50th Street.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Miami-Dade | 2004-05-11 | 65 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Florida in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, May 2004
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5394479.