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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 11, 2013Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 11, 2013, 10:42 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 11, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2013, 10:42 AM EDT (14:42 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 11, 2013, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Mar 11, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 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 14:39 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 1170 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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.

831 
WHUS42 KMLB 111442
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1042 AM EDT MON MAR 11 2013

...STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS CONTINUE TODAY...

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-120000-
/O.EXP.KMLB.SU.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-130311T1500Z/
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0002.130311T1500Z-130312T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA-
NORTHERN BREVARD-
1042 AM EDT MON MAR 11 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
...HIGH SURF ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...LARGE BREAKING WAVES WILL SLOWLY DECLINE LATE TODAY
  INTO TONIGHT...BUT THE SURF ZONE WILL REMAIN HAZARDOUS ALL DAY.

* IMPACTS...ROUGH SURF AND STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL
  CONTINUE ALONG THE BEACHES...ESPECIALLY THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON
  DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. 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.

&&

$$

WEITLICH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 11, 4:04 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MLB		3 days

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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.