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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 27, 2012, 9:35 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2012, 9:35 AM EST (14:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2012, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 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 14:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WHUS42 KMFL 271435 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 935 AM EST MON FEB 27 2012 FLZ168-172-173-272200- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0005.120227T1435Z-120227T2200Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 935 AM EST MON FEB 27 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. EASTERLY WINDS 15 TO 20 MPH WILL OCCUR ALONG THE EAST COAST BEACHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY. THIS WILL LEAD TO A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES OF MIAMI-DADE...BROWARD...AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES. 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. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
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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.