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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Miami, FL

April 16, 2012Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 16, 2012, 10:01 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 16, 2012, 10:01 AM EDT (14:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:00 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 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 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.

775 
WHUS42 KMFL 161401
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1001 AM EDT MON APR 16 2012

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ATLANTIC BEACHES...

FLZ168-172-173-162200-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0013.120416T1401Z-120416T2200Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-
1001 AM EDT MON APR 16 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...A SOUTHEAST WIND OF 15 TO 20 MPH COMBINED WITH LOW TIDE
  AROUND NOON WILL LEAD TO HAZARDOUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING
  ALONG THE EAST COAST BEACHES FROM JUPITER INLET TO MIAMI BEACH.

* 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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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.