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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Miami, FL

June 4, 2014Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 4, 2014, 9:15 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 2014, 9:15 PM EDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 7:42 AM EDT
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Palm Beach County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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.

436 
WHUS42 KMFL 050115
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
915 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

FLZ168-051200-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0019.140605T0115Z-140605T1200Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
915 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THURSDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THURSDAY. 

* TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT.

* IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES, STRONGEST NEAR
  JETTIES AND PIERS, MAKING FOR HAZARDOUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS.

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.

&&

$$

GREGORIA

1 follow-up statement

637 
WHUS42 KMFL 051142
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
742 AM EDT THU JUN 5 2014

FLZ168-051245-
/O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-140605T1200Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
742 AM EDT THU JUN 5 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK. 

$$

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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.