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WGUS72 KMFL 260218

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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL

1017 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005



FLC086-260500-

MIAMI-DADE FL-

1017 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2005



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR MIAMI-DADE 

COUNTY...



AT 1012 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND LOCAL 

RAIN GAUGE NETWORKS INDICATED RAINFALL OF 5 TO 9 INCHES HAS OCCURRED 

OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY WITH LOCALIZED AMOUNTS 

UP TO 14 INCHES. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE 

LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA.



A FEW OF THE LOCATIONS MOST THREATENED BY FLOODING INCLUDE 

KENDALL...PERRINE...COUNTRY WALK...CUTLER RIDGE....GOULDS...AND 

HOMESTEAD.



THIS IS POTENTIALLY A VERY SIGNIFICANT FLOOD SITUATION. THIS AMOUNT 

OF RAIN COULD RESULT IN EXTENSIVE FLOODING ACROSS SOUTH  

FLORIDA...SIMILAR TO THAT EXPERIENCE WITH HURRICANE IRENE IN 1999 

AND THE TROPICAL DISTURBANCE OF OCTOBER 2 2000.



EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE WIDESPREAD FLOODING 

OF URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...AS WELL AS OTHER POORLY DRAINED AREAS 

AND OTHER LOW LYING SPOTS AND MAY IMPACT NUMEROUS STRUCTURES.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE 

ROADWAY THE WATER MAY OBSCURE DEEP CANALS OR PONDS. TURN AROUND 

DONT DROWN.



LAT...LON 2582 8009 2594 8042 2537 8058 2531 8031



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