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Rip Current Statement 30, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 23, 2020, 2:34 AM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2020, 2:34 AM EDT (06:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2020, 7:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 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
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
818 WHUS42 KMFL 230634 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 234 AM EDT Thu Apr 23 2020 FLZ168-172-173-231445- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0030.200423T0634Z-200424T0200Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 234 AM EDT Thu Apr 23 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
791 WHUS42 KMFL 231343 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 943 AM EDT Thu Apr 23 2020 FLZ168-172-173-240200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-200424T0200Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 943 AM EDT Thu Apr 23 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Baxter
577 WHUS42 KMFL 232307 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 707 PM EDT Thu Apr 23 2020 FLZ168-172-173-240015- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-200424T0200Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 707 PM EDT Thu Apr 23 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 the Atlantic beaches this evening. $$ 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.