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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL

1037 PM EDT SAT OCT 4 2008



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MIAMI-DADE FL-

1037 PM EDT SAT OCT 4 2008



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1145 PM EDT FOR

EXTREME EAST CENTRAL MIAMI-DADE COUNTY...



AT 1025 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED RAIN CONTINUING ACROSS THE 

AREA...THOUGH THE RAINFALL RATES HAVE DECREASED. A RAIN GUAGE AT 

11TH STREET AND WASHINGTON AVENUE IN SOUTH BEACH RECORDED 5.76 

INCHES OF RAIN THIS EVENING. 



A NATIONAL WEATHER EMPLOYEE REPORTED SIGNIFICANT STREET FLOODING IN 

SOUTH BEACH WITH ABOUT A FOOT AND A HALF OF WATER COVERING THE 

INTERSECTION OF 8TH STREET AND ALTON ROAD. WATER WAS COVERING 

NUMEROUS ROADS IN SOUTH BEACH. 



ANOTHER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE REPORTED STRANDED VEHICLES 

IN SOUTH BEACH ALONG MICHIGAN AVENUE. WATER WAS ENTERING AN 

APARTMENT ALONG MICHIGAN AVENUE AND 10TH STREET.



FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. MOST FLOOD RELATED DEATHS OCCUR

IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED 

BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW WATER CROSSINGS. REMEMBER...TURN 

AROUND...DONT DROWN



LAT...LON 2576 8013 2575 8014 2571 8015 2567 8015

      2567 8017 2569 8018 2573 8018 2573 8016

      2575 8017 2578 8014 2587 8015 2587 8013

      2589 8013 2590 8011 2585 8011



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