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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 25, 2012Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 25, 2012, 2:39 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 25, 2012, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2012, 2:39 AM EST (07:39 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 25, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 25, 2012, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

County Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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.

797 
WHUS42 KMLB 250739
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
239 AM EST SUN NOV 25 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS
EVENING...

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-252300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0012.121125T0900Z-121126T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
NORTHERN BREVARD-
239 AM EST SUN NOV 25 2012

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


* TIMING...THE SURF ZONE WILL BE HAZARDOUS ALL DAY BUT THE
  STRONGEST RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED TO OCCUR DURING LATE MORNING
  AND EARLY AFTERNOON DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS AND A PERSISTENT LONG
  PERIOD OCEAN SWELL.

* IMPACTS...WHEN THE RIP CURRENT RISK IS HIGH...THE SURF ZONE IS
  DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS.

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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 25, 2:12 PM EST	Frost Advisory	MLB	Lake, Volusia	18 hr

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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.