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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Miami, FL

January 7, 2014Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 7, 2014, 5:01 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 7, 2014, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 7, 2014, 5:01 AM EST (10:01 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 7, 2014, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 7, 2014, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 12 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 09:59 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

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 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.

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: 177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

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

490 
WHUS42 KMFL 071001
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
501 AM EST TUE JAN 7 2014


FLZ168-172-173-080000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0001.140107T1200Z-140108T0000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-
501 AM EST TUE JAN 7 2014

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* TIMING...SURF ALONG THE EAST COAST OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA WILL
  BUILD THROUGH THE DAY TODAY AS THE STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS SHIFT
  TO ONSHORE AND SEAS CONTINUE TO BUILD. THIS WILL LEAD TO
  HAZARDOUS RIP CURRENTS BY THE END OF THE DAY.

* IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS WILL BE EXPECTED BY THE
  END OF THE DAY. 

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.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

998 
WHUS42 KMFL 080013
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
713 PM EST TUE JAN 7 2014

FLZ168-172-173-080115-
/O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-140108T0000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE-
713 PM EST TUE JAN 7 2014

...RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

THE HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC WATERS HAS
EXPIRED. 

$$

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2014 Every rip current statement in 2014

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.