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Rip Current Statement 55, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 16, 2019, 9:08 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 34 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2019, 9:08 AM EST (14:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2019, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 34 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 14:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 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
- 505 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
559 WHUS42 KMFL 161408 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 908 AM EST Mon Dec 16 2019 FLZ168-170000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0055.191216T1408Z-191217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 908 AM EST Mon Dec 16 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ RAG
2 follow-up statements
859 WHUS42 KMFL 162206 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 506 PM EST Mon Dec 16 2019 FLZ172-173-171600- /O.EXB.KMFL.RP.S.0055.000000T0000Z-191218T0000Z/ Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 506 PM EST Mon Dec 16 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami-Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through at least Tuesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ168-171600- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0055.000000T0000Z-191218T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 506 PM EST Mon Dec 16 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through at least Tuesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Cohen
038 WHUS42 KMFL 170824 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 324 AM EST Tue Dec 17 2019 FLZ168-172-173-180000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0055.000000T0000Z-191218T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 324 AM EST Tue Dec 17 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.