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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Melbourne, FL

April 8, 2015Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 8, 2015, 11:20 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2015, 11:20 AM EDT (15:20 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 9 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 15:25 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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

620 
WHUS42 KMLB 081520
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
1120 AM EDT WED APR 8 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT THREAT THIS AFTERNOON...

.A CONTINUED SMALL OCEAN SWELL WILL BRING A HIGH THREAT FOR RIP
CURRENT FORMATION AT ATLANTIC COAST BEACHES THIS AFTERNOON. THE
THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST FROM ABOUT 230 PM THROUGH SUNSET DUE TO
TIDAL EFFECTS.

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-082330-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0008.150408T1520Z-150409T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
1120 AM EDT WED APR 8 2015

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...230 PM THROUGH SUNSET.

* IMPACTS...STRONG RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED DURING LOW TIDE.

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. 

&&

$$
JOHNSON

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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.