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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Melbourne, FL

March 25, 2017Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 25, 2017, 4:21 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 25, 2017, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
Expired
Mar 25, 2017, 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 08:24 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, 8.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2017-03-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 77 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Canaveral, FL at 00:00Z on 2017-03-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
77 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
894 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

369 
WHUS42 KMLB 250821
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
421 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017

...HIGH RIP CURRENT THREAT AT THE ATLANTIC BEACHES TODAY...

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-260000-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0012.170325T0821Z-170326T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
421 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017

...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...A HIGH RISK FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL BE PRESENT
  THROUGH THE DAY TODAY; HOWEVER, IT WILL BE GREATEST BETWEEN
  11:00 AM AND 2:00 PM DUE TO TIDAL INFLUENCES. 

* IMPACTS...ROUGH SURF AND A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS WILL MAKE
  ENTERING THE SURF DANGEROUS TODAY. 

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.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO ENTER THE WEATER, ONLY DO SO NEAR 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.

&&

$$

ULRICH

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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.