Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2013

Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Melbourne, FL

November 21, 2013Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 21, 2013, 5:22 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 21, 2013, 5:22 AM EST (10:22 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 2013, 4:00 AM EST
In force: 23 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 10:24 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 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: 428 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

733 
WHUS42 KMLB 211022
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
522 AM EST THU NOV 21 2013

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-211830-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0018.131121T1022Z-131122T0900Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
NORTHERN BREVARD-
522 AM EST THU NOV 21 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK FOR THE BEACHES OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. 

* TIMING...BRISK EASTERLY WINDS WILL PUSH A LARGE LONG PERIOD
  SWELL INTO THE EAST FLORIDA COAST THAT WILL GREATLY ENHANCE THE
  RIP CURRENT THREAT ALONG AREA BEACHES. THE THREAT WILL BE
  HIGHEST BETWEEN 1:00 PM AND 7:30 PM DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. THE
  BRISK ONSHORE WINDS ALSO WILL GENERATE ROUGH AND POUNDING
  WAVES...MAKING THE SURF ZONE PARTICULARLY HAZARDOUS TODAY. 

* IMPACTS...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.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND 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.

&&

$$

BRAGAW

1 follow-up statement

410 
WHUS42 KMLB 211620
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1120 AM EST THU NOV 21 2013

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-220100-
/O.CON.KMLB.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-131122T0900Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
NORTHERN BREVARD-
1120 AM EST THU NOV 21 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* TIMING...BRISK EASTERLY WINDS WILL PUSH A LARGE LONG PERIOD 
  SWELL INTO THE EAST FLORIDA COAST THAT WILL GREATLY ENHANCE 
  THE RIP CURRENT THREAT ALONG AREA BEACHES. THE THREAT WILL BE 
  HIGHEST BETWEEN 1:00 PM AND 7:30 PM DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. THE 
  BRISK ONSHORE WINDS ALSO WILL GENERATE ROUGH AND POUNDING 
  WAVES...MAKING THE SURF ZONE PARTICULARLY HAZARDOUS TODAY. 

* IMPACTS...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. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 21, 4:27 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MLB		11 hr
Nov 21, 12:50 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard, Indian River	115 min
Nov 21, 2:52 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Brevard, Indian River, Osceola, Saint Lucie	68 min
Nov 21, 4:03 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Martin, Saint Lucie	87 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2013 Every rip current statement in 2013

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.