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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Miami, FL

March 28, 2012Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 28, 2012, 3:49 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2012, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2012, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 28, 2012, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 28, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
12 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 07:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 7.8 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 2012-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 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 2012-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 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.

791 
WHUS42 KMFL 280749
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
349 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS PALM BEACH COUNTY BEACHES...

FLZ168-290000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0010.120328T1200Z-120329T0000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
349 AM EDT WED MAR 28 2012

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH
THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* TIMING: EAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH COMBINED WITH NORTHEASTERLY
  SWELL OF 2 TO 4 FEET WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS
  AT THE PALM BEACH COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS: STRONG RIP CURRENTS CAN BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE 
  ENTERING THE WATER. SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED THROUGH THIS 
  PERIOD. 


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND
PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY
ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN
CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM
THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A
STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY.

&&

$$


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NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD...

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 10:35 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMFL9 hr
Mar 28, 4:19 AM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasMFL18 hr

Nearby

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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.