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Rip Current Statement 57, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 24, 2020, 8:11 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2020, 8:11 AM EST (13:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
- 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 13:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 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
- 418 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 758 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
880 WHUS42 KMFL 241311 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 811 AM EST Thu Dec 24 2020 FLZ168-250000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0057.201224T1311Z-201225T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 811 AM EST Thu Dec 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
344 WHUS42 KMFL 242132 CFWMFL URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 432 PM EST Thu Dec 24 2020 FLZ168-250000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0057.000000T0000Z-201225T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 432 PM EST Thu Dec 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ http://www.weather.gov/miami
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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.