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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 2, 2020, 8:49 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2020, 8:49 AM EST (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2020, 3:05 AM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
588 WHUS42 KMFL 021349 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 849 AM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 FLZ069-030000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0010.200202T1349Z-200203T0000Z/ Coastal Collier- 849 AM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier 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. && $$ Baxter
4 follow-up statements
771 WHUS42 KMFL 021956 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 256 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 FLZ069-031200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-200203T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 256 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Collier County. * WHEN...Through Monday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
202 WHUS42 KMFL 022047 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 347 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 FLZ069-030500- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-200203T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 347 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Collier County. * WHEN...Through Monday morning. * 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. && $$ http://www.weather.gov/miami
873 WHUS42 KMFL 030245 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 945 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 FLZ069-031200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-200203T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 945 PM EST Sun Feb 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST MONDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Monday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Cohen
602 WHUS42 KMFL 030805 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 305 AM EST Mon Feb 3 2020 FLZ069-030915- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-200203T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 305 AM EST Mon Feb 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Miami has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. A moderate risk of rip currents remains for any residual rip currents that may be around. $$ http://www.weather.gov/miami
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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.