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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Melbourne, FL

February 10, 2016Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 10, 2016, 5:26 AM EST for Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 10, 2016, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 10, 2016, 5:26 AM EST (10:26 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 10, 2016, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 10, 2016, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 11 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 10:26 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 00:00Z, 10.4 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1418 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

558 
WHUS42 KMLB 101026
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
526 AM EST WED FEB 10 2016

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-102300-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0010.160210T1200Z-160210T2300Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
526 AM EST WED FEB 10 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MELBOURNE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. 

* TIMING...THE RIP CURRENT THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST AROUND THE TIME
  OF LOW TIDE...BETWEEN NOON AND 6 PM.

* IMPACTS...IF YOU PLAN ON BRAVING THE CHILLY AIR AND SURF
  TEMPERATURES TODAY...REMEMBER TO SWIM ONLY WITHIN SIGHT OF A
  LIFEGUARD...AND NEVER SWIM ALONE.

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. 

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 10, 3:40 AM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	MLB	Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Volusia	14 hr
Feb 10, 2:14 PM EST	Frost Advisory	MLB	Lake, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole	19 hr
Feb 10, 2:14 PM EST	Freeze Warning	MLB	Lake, Volusia	19 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2016 Every rip current statement in 2016

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.