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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 7, 2020, 8:49 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2020, 8:49 PM EDT (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
172 WHUS42 KMFL 080049 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 849 PM EDT Tue Apr 7 2020 FLZ168-080900- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0026.200408T0049Z-200409T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 849 PM EDT Tue Apr 7 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
613 WHUS42 KMFL 080735 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 335 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 FLZ168-081545- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-200409T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 335 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
401 WHUS42 KMFL 081324 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 924 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 FLZ168-090000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-200409T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 924 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$ Frye
502 WHUS42 KMFL 090000 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 800 PM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 FLZ168-090100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-200409T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 800 PM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The high rip current risk has expired for the Palm Beaches, while an elevated rip current risk remains in effect of all east coast beaches. $$
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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.