Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 21, 2020, 3:23 AM EST for Collier County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2020, 3:23 AM EST (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2020, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Collier County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1230 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
484 WHUS42 KMFL 210823 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 323 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2020 FLZ168-220000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0006.200121T0823Z-200122T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 323 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Atlantic beaches of Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through at least 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. && $$ FLZ069-220000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0006.200121T0823Z-200122T0000Z/ Coastal Collier- 323 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Collier County. * WHEN...Through at least this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
291 WHUS42 KMFL 211447 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 947 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2020 FLZ168-220000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-200122T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 947 AM EST Tue Jan 21 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. && $$ FLZ069-220000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-200122T0000Z/ Coastal Collier- 947 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:28 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | MFL | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:46 AM EST | Gale Warning | MFL | 33 hr |
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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.