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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 5, 2016, 4:53 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 5, 2016, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 5, 2016, 4:53 AM EST (09:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 5, 2016, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2016, 4:06 PM EST
- In force
- 28 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 09:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 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
- 106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
472 WHUS42 KMFL 050953 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 453 AM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR PORTIONS OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATERS... .A COLD FRONT IS MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. BEHIND THE FRONT WINDS WILL INCREASE AND BECOME MORE ONSHORE ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BEACHES RESULTING IN HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. FLZ168-172-173-060000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0007.160205T1700Z-160207T0000Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 453 AM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM NOON EST TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON EST TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON AND THROUGH THE DAY ON SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS MARINE CONDITIONS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BEACHES WILL RESULT IN STRONG RIP CURRENTS THAT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FOR SWIMMERS. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
2 follow-up statements
970 WHUS42 KMFL 052122 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 422 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 FLZ168-172-173-061200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-160207T0000Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 422 PM EST FRI FEB 5 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS MARINE CONDITIONS ALONG THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA BEACHES WILL RESULT IN STRONG RIP CURRENTS THAT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FOR SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
432 WHUS42 KMFL 062106 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 406 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2016 FLZ168-172-173-062215- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-160207T0000Z/ COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD-COASTAL MIAMI DADE- 406 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. THE WINDS HAVE DECREASED TO LESS THAN 10 KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON AND THE WIND WILL BE TURNING TO A WESTERLY DIRECTION TONIGHT. THIS HAS ALLOWED FOR THE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS DO DECREASE SOME ALONG THE EAST COAST BEACHES OF SOUTH FLORIDA. THEREFORE...THE HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FLZ069-071200- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0008.160207T0600Z-160208T0000Z/ COASTAL COLLIER- 406 PM EST SAT FEB 6 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM EST SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM EST SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS MARINE CONDITIONS ALONG THE WEST COAST OF SOUTH FLORIDA BEACHES WILL RESULT IN STRONG RIP CURRENTS THAT ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS FOR SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI
Nearby
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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.