Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 33, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 15, 2012, 4:02 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2012, 4:02 AM EST (09:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2012, 4:14 AM EST
- In force
- 24 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 09:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 972 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
390 WHUS42 KMFL 150902 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 402 AM EST THU NOV 15 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING PALM BEACH COUNTY... .A NORTHEAST SWELL OF 3 TO 4 FEET COMBINED WITH FAVORABLE LOW TIDES AT MID AFTERNOON WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE PALM BEACH COUNTY BEACHES TODAY AND LATE TONIGHT. FLZ168-151715- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0033.121115T0902Z-121116T1200Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH- 402 AM EST THU NOV 15 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING, PERIODS OF THE GREATEST RISK WILL BE AROUND THE TIME OF LOW TIDES WHICH OCCUR AROUND MID AFTERNOON TODAY AND AT MID MORNING TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...THE RIP CURRENTS WILL CREATE VERY HAZARDOUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS AT THE BEACHES. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
030 WHUS42 KMFL 160914 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 414 AM EST FRI NOV 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... FLZ168-161015- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0033.000000T0000Z-121116T1200Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH- 414 AM EST FRI NOV 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. WITH GENERALLY NORTH WINDS OF LESS THAN 15 MPH TODAY...THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS HAVE DECREASED. HOWEVER...THERE REMAINS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH TONIGHT AND CAUTION IS STILL ADVISED. $$
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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.