Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 29, 2013, 4:08 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2013, 4:08 AM EDT (08:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 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 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
742 WHUS42 KMLB 290808 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 408 AM EDT MON APR 29 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT THREAT THROUGH 800 PM... ...NAVIGATING INLETS WILL BE HAZARDOUS DURING THE OUTGOING TIDES... FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-300000- /O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0005.130429T0808Z-130430T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- NORTHERN BREVARD- 408 AM EDT MON APR 29 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...WHILE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE OCCURRING ALL DAY...THE HIGHEST THREAT WILL BE BETWEEN ABOUT 230 AND 830 PM...CENTERED AROUND THE TIMES OF LOW...OR OUTGOING TIDE. * IMPACTS...SWELL CONDITIONS SUPPORT STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS MAY BE LIFE-THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. 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. NAVIGATING INLETS WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS AROUND THE TIMES OF THE OUTGOING TIDE THIS AFTERNOON. && $$ CRISTALDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Okeechobee | 43 min |
| Apr 29, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Okeechobee | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MLB | Indian River | 35 min |
| Apr 29, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MLB | Brevard, Osceola | 46 min |
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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.