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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Miami, FL

September 17, 2014Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 17, 2014, 10:11 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2014, 10:11 AM EDT (14:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 18, 2014, 4:36 AM EDT
In force: 18 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 14:14 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 12:00Z, 2.2 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: 1031 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 818 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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.

335 
WHUS42 KMFL 171411
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
1011 AM EDT WED SEP 17 2014

FLZ168-181000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0023.140917T1411Z-140918T1000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
1011 AM EDT WED SEP 17 2014

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. 

* TIMING...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES OF PALM BEACH
  COUNTY...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.

&&

$$

BAXTER

1 follow-up statement

294 
WHUS42 KMFL 180836
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
436 AM EDT THU SEP 18 2014


FLZ168-180945-
/O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-140918T1000Z/
COASTAL PALM BEACH-
436 AM EDT THU SEP 18 2014

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

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

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 17, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL	29 min
Sep 17, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL	35 min
Sep 17, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MFL	42 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.