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Rip Current Statement 33, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 6, 2016Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 6, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 6, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 6, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 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 08:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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: 538 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

969 
WHUS42 KMLB 060803
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
403 AM EDT TUE SEP 6 2016

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-070000-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0033.160906T0803Z-160907T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
403 AM EDT TUE SEP 6 2016

...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...THE THREAT FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL BE IN PLACE
  ALL DAY...HOWEVER...WILL BE HIGHEST EARLY THIS MORNING AND AGAIN
  FROM MID AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING DUE TO TIDAL
  EFFECTS.

* IMPACTS...LINGERING LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL TEND TO PILE WATER
  ONSHORE ALONG AREA BEACHES WITHIN THE RUNUP....RESULTING IN
  NUMEROUS STRONG RIP CURRENTS IN THE SURF ZONE. THE SEAWARD PULL
  OF A RIP CURRENT CAN BE LIFE THREATENING. ONLY SWIM IN THE OCEAN
  NEAR A LIFEGUARD.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND
SIGNS.

SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM.
DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE
SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE...FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE
FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP
CURRENT.

&&

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 6, 4:04 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	MLB		12 hr

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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.