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Rip Current Statement 22, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at May 2, 2016, 1:07 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It took effect at May 2, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2016, 1:07 PM EDT (17:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 2, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 3, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- 849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
901 WHUS42 KMFL 021707 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 107 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 FLZ172-173-030830- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0022.160502T1800Z-160503T1800Z/ COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI-DADE- 107 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY TOMORROW AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR SWIMMERS ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST BEACHES OF BROWARD AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
2 follow-up statements
337 WHUS42 KMFL 021952 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 352 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS BROWARD/MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... FLZ172-173-031200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0022.000000T0000Z-160503T1800Z/ COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI-DADE- 352 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR SWIMMERS ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST BEACHES OF BROWARD AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
861 WHUS42 KMFL 030815 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 415 AM EDT TUE MAY 3 2016 FLZ172-173-031800- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0022.000000T0000Z-160503T1800Z/ COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI-DADE- 415 AM EDT TUE MAY 3 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR SWIMMERS ALONG THE BEACHES OF BROWARD AND MIAMI- DADE COUNTIES. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
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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.