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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 11, 2015, 2:55 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 11, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2015, 2:55 AM EST (07:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 762 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
272 WHUS42 KMFL 110755 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 255 AM EST SUN JAN 11 2015 FLZ168-172-173-120000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0002.150111T1200Z-150112T0000Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 255 AM EST SUN JAN 11 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES DUE TO MODERATE SURF. SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
369 WHUS42 KMFL 112001 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 301 PM EST SUN JAN 11 2015 FLZ168-172-173-121200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-150112T1200Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 301 PM EST SUN JAN 11 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * TIMING...THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES DUE TO MODERATE SURF. SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
290 WHUS42 KMFL 121207 CFWMFL COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 707 AM EST MON JAN 12 2015 HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EXTENDED UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING FOR THE EAST COAST BEACHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA. FLZ168-172-173-130000- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-150112T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0003.150112T1207Z-150113T0000Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 707 AM EST MON JAN 12 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS EXTENDED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH MONDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES DUE TO EASTERLY WINDS AROUND 15 MPH. SWIMMING IS NOT ADVISED. 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
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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.