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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 18, 2020, 2:53 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2020, 2:53 PM EST (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 28 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 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1338 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
588 WHUS42 KMFL 181953 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 253 PM EST Tue Feb 18 2020 FLZ168-172-173-190400- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0014.200218T1953Z-200220T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 253 PM EST Tue Feb 18 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Multiple water rescues have already been reported. Dangerous rip currents are occurring. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
213 WHUS42 KMFL 190139 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 839 PM EST Tue Feb 18 2020 FLZ168-172-173-190945- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-200220T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 839 PM EST Tue Feb 18 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
194 WHUS42 KMFL 190758 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 258 AM EST Wed Feb 19 2020 FLZ168-172-173-200000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-200220T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 258 AM EST Wed Feb 19 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Atlantic beaches of Broward, Palm Beach, and 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. && $$
487 WHUS42 KMFL 191400 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 900 AM EST Wed Feb 19 2020 FLZ168-172-173-200000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-200220T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 900 AM EST Wed Feb 19 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Atlantic beaches of Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Frye
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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.