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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 14, 2020, 11:02 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2020, 11:02 AM EDT (15:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 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 15:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 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
- 16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
497 WHUS42 KMFL 141502 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1102 AM EDT Sat Mar 14 2020 FLZ168-172-173-142315- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0021.200314T1502Z-200315T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 1102 AM EDT Sat Mar 14 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
859 WHUS42 KMFL 141804 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 204 PM EDT Sat Mar 14 2020 FLZ168-172-173-150000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-200315T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 204 PM EDT Sat Mar 14 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Baxter
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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.