Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 6, 2020, 3:30 AM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 6, 2020, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2020, 3:30 AM EST (08:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2020, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 8, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
071 WHUS42 KMFL 060830 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 330 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 FLZ168-172-173-061630- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0011.200206T1200Z-200208T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 330 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through Friday 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. && $$ FLZ069-061630- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0011.200207T0000Z-200208T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 330 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...From this evening through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
3 follow-up statements
289 WHUS42 KMFL 061508 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1008 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 FLZ168-172-173-070000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200208T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 1008 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through Friday 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. && $$ FLZ069-070000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0011.200207T0000Z-200208T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 1008 AM EST Thu Feb 6 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM EST THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...From this evening through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ http://www.weather.gov/miami
543 WHUS42 KMFL 070827 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 327 AM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 FLZ168-172-173-071630- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200208T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 327 AM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 ...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. && $$ FLZ069-071630- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200208T1200Z/ Coastal Collier- 327 AM EST Fri Feb 7 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
749 WHUS42 KMFL 080841 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 341 AM EST Sat Feb 8 2020 FLZ069-081645- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200209T0000Z/ Coastal Collier- 341 AM EST Sat Feb 8 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 4:07 AM EST | Wind Advisory | MFL | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more | 18 hr |
Nearby
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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.