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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 1, 2015Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 1, 2015, 4:20 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 1, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2015, 4:20 AM EST (09:20 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 1, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 1, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 12 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 09:22 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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.

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 397 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 343 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 538 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.

557 
WHUS42 KMLB 010920
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
420 AM EST SUN MAR 1 2015

...ROUGH SURF AND A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT EAST CENTRAL
FLORIDA BEACHES TODAY...

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-020000-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0006.150301T1200Z-150302T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
420 AM EST SUN MAR 1 2015

...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...EAST SWELLS WILL PRODUCE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS
  WHICH WILL BE ENHANCED NEAR THE TIME OF LOW TIDE FROM LATE
  MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON.

* IMPACTS...ROUGH SURF AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED AT
  EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA BEACHES TODAY POSING A HAZARD TO SWIMMERS.
  IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO THE BEACH UNTIL
  OUT OF THE PULL OF THE CURRENT AND THEN SWIM BACK TO SHORE.

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.

&&

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 8:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Okeechobee	108 min
Mar 1, 10:46 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MLB		8 hr

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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.