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Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 19, 2017Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 19, 2017, 4:38 AM EDT for Volusia County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 19, 2017, 4:38 AM EDT (08:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 19, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 15 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 08:41 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, 8.6 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: 703 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 766 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

596 
WHUS42 KMLB 190838
CFWMLB

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL
438 AM EDT TUE SEP 19 2017

...LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM HURRICANE JOSE WILL CONTINUE TO 
PRODUCE DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH TODAY...

FLZ047-054-059-064-141-147-191645-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0029.170919T0838Z-170920T0000Z/
SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-INDIAN RIVER-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-
COASTAL VOLUSIA COUNTY-NORTHERN BREVARD COUNTY-
438 AM EDT TUE SEP 19 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...LONG PERIOD SWELLS GENERATED BY HURRICANE JOSE WILL
  CONTINUE TO GENERATE DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES
  TODAY. THE THREAT WILL BE GREATEST AFTER 11:00 AM DUE TO TIDAL
  EFFECTS.

* IMPACTS...NUMEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL FORM ALONG AREA BEACHES,
  ESPECIALLY DURING THE OUTGOING TIDES.  

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 JETTIES AND
PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND
SIGNS.

SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT, RELAX AND
FLOAT. DON'T SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT. IF ABLE, SWIM IN A
DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE UNTIL THE CURRENT LOSES ITS 
GRIP. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR 
HELP.

&&

$$

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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.