Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2014
Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Melbourne, FL
NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 23, 2014, 5:11 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 23, 2014, 5:11 AM EST (10:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 23, 2014, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 14 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 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
911 WHUS42 KMLB 231011 CFWMLB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 511 AM EST SUN NOV 23 2014 ...ROUGH SURF WITH A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS AGAIN TODAY... .STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OFFSHORE THE SOUTHEAST U.S. WILL PRODUCE SOUTHEAST WINDS NEAR 20 MPH AT THE BEACHES AGAIN TODAY. THIS WILL CAUSE ROUGH SURF AND NUMEROUS STRONG RIP CURRENTS IN THE SURF ZONE ONCE AGAIN TODAY. THERE WILL ALSO BE AN INCREASING LONGSHORE CURRENT FLOWING FROM SOUTH TO NORTH TODAY. WINDS WILL VEER TO SOUTHERLY BY EARLY THIS EVENING...CARRYING THE HIGHER SEAS FARTHER OFFSHORE...WITH ROUGH CONDITIONS IN THE SURF ZONE SLOWLY ABATING. FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-240000- /O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0021.141123T1011Z-141124T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BREVARD-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- NORTHERN BREVARD- 511 AM EST SUN NOV 23 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...ROUGH SURF AND NUMEROUS STRONG RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED THE ENTIRE DAY. THE GREATEST THREAT FOR RIPS WILL BE FROM 11 AM THROUGH ABOUT 5 PM. * IMPACTS...STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL PRODUCE LARGE BREAKING WAVES OF ABOUT 5 TO 6 FEET IN THE SURF ZONE TODAY. NUMEROUS STRONG RIP CURRENTS WILL ALSO OCCUR. MINOR BEACH EROSION IS POSSIBLE AROUND THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE AT AROUND 800 AM THIS MORNING AND AGAIN AT ABOUT 800 PM THIS EVENING. 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. && $$
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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.