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Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Miami, FL

March 28, 2015Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 28, 2015, 5:08 AM EDT for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2015, 5:08 AM EDT (09:08 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 28, 2015, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 28, 2015, 4:37 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2015-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2015-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -103 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-137 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

832 
WHUS42 KMFL 280908
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
508 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015
 
FLZ069-290000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0018.150328T1000Z-150329T0000Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-
508 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

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

* TIMING...NOW THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS ARE LIKELY AT THE COLLIER COUNTY
  BEACHES.

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 GROINS...
JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL
FLAGS AND SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN
CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR
HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO
SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. 

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
666 
WHUS42 KMFL 282037
CFWMFL

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
437 PM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015

FLZ069-282145-
/O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-150329T0000Z/
COASTAL COLLIER-
437 PM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015

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

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

THERE REMAINS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF COAST
BEACHES THIS EVENING.

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 27, 8:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL60 min
Mar 27, 8:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL93 min
Mar 27, 9:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMFL24 min

Nearby

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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.