Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 40, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 3, 2020, 8:46 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2020, 8:46 AM EDT (12:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 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 12:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 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
- 2171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted.
896 WHUS42 KMFL 031246 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 846 AM EDT Mon Aug 3 2020 FLZ168-032100- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0040.200803T1246Z-200804T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 846 AM EDT Mon Aug 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
572 WHUS42 KMFL 032026 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 426 PM EDT Mon Aug 3 2020 FLZ168-040000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0040.000000T0000Z-200804T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 426 PM EDT Mon Aug 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ http://www.weather.gov/miami
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MFL | 62 min | |
| Aug 3, 9:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 9:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 10:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 42 min |
| Aug 3, 11:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 61 min |
| Aug 3, 12:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 44 min |
| Aug 3, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 47 min |
| Aug 3, 5:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MFL | Broward, Palm Beach | 87 min |
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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.