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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Miami, FL

January 12, 2015Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 12, 2015, 7:07 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2015, 7:07 AM EST (12:07 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 12 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 12:09 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, 0.1 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.

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: 1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 690 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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.

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.