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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Miami, FL

May 14, 2011Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at May 14, 2011, 5:32 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at May 14, 2011, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2011, 5:32 AM EDT (09:32 UTC)
In effect from
May 14, 2011, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 14, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:29 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 185 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-184 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

743 
WHUS42 KMFL 140932
CFWMFL

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
532 AM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

FLZ168-150000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0002.110514T1000Z-110515T0000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
532 AM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

A NORTH NORTHEAST SWELL OF 2 TO 4 FEET WILL LEAD TO A
CONTINUATION OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE PALM BEACH COUNTY
COAST...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE NORTHERN COAST. THEREFORE...THERE IS
A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE PALM BEACHES THROUGH AT LEAST
EARLY THIS EVENING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A RIP CURRENT IS A 10 TO 30 YARD WIDE CHANNEL OF WATER THAT CAN
PULL EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER FROM NEAR OR INSIDE THE SAND BAR INTO
DEEPER WATER. DUE TO THE LIFE THREATENING DANGERS THAT THESE
STRONG CURRENTS OF WATER POSE...SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED*.

IF YOU DO GO INTO THE WATERS...SWIM AT GUARDED BEACHES AND HEED
THE ADVICE OF THE BEACH PATROL. IF CAUGHT IN THE SEAWARD PULL OF A
RIP CURRENT DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MOVE DIRECTLY TOWARD SHORE.
INSTEAD...MOVE SIDEWAYS ACROSS THE RIP CURRENT UNTIL THE PULL
EASES.

AN ALTERNATE METHOD OF ESCAPE IS TO LET THE RIP CURRENT PULL YOU
SEAWARD 50 TO 100 YARDS...WHERE THE FORCE WEAKENS...AND THEN SWIM
TOWARD THE BEACH AT AN ANGLE AWAY FROM THE CURRENT.

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

&&

$$


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 11:46 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades29 min
May 14, 1:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades41 min
May 14, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLGlades49 min
May 14, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLHendry49 min
May 14, 2:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL65 min
May 14, 3:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach40 min
May 14, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach36 min
May 14, 3:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward42 min
May 14, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach28 min
May 14, 3:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLPalm Beach38 min
May 14, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach45 min
May 14, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLPalm Beach42 min
May 14, 4:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL112 min
May 14, 4:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL53 min
May 14, 5:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward50 min
May 14, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward16 min
May 14, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward57 min
May 14, 6:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward46 min
May 14, 7:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier35 min

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Sources

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.