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Rip Current Statement 15, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 17, 2014, 3:37 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 17, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 17, 2014, 3:37 AM EDT (07:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 17, 2014, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 17, 2014, 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 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
223 WHUS42 KMLB 170737 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 337 AM EDT FRI OCT 17 2014 ...LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM GONZALO WILL PRODUCE A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK... FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-180000- /O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0015.141017T0800Z-141018T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- NORTHERN BREVARD- 337 AM EDT FRI OCT 17 2014 ...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...HIGHEST THREAT IS THIS MORNING AND AGAIN IN THE EVENING DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS AND BREAKING WAVES. 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. ATTEMPTING TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO EXHAUSTION. && $$ RL
1 follow-up statement
609 WHUS42 KMLB 170833 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 433 AM EDT FRI OCT 17 2014 ...LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM GONZALO WILL PRODUCE A MODERATE TO HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK... FLZ059-064-170945- /O.CAN.KMLB.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-141018T0000Z/ ST. LUCIE-MARTIN- 433 AM EDT FRI OCT 17 2014 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...BUT THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. ATTEMPTING TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO EXHAUSTION. && $$ FLZ047-054-141-147-180000- /O.CON.KMLB.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-141018T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-COASTAL VOLUSIA-NORTHERN BREVARD- 433 AM EDT FRI OCT 17 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...HIGHEST THREAT IS THIS MORNING AND AGAIN IN THE EVENING DUE TO TIDAL EFFECTS. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS AND BREAKING WAVES. 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. ATTEMPTING TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT CAN QUICKLY LEAD TO EXHAUSTION. && $$
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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.