Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 28, 2020, 9:22 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2020, 9:22 AM EST (14:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 2020, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 13 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 14:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 846 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
286 WHUS42 KMFL 281422 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 922 AM EST Tue Jan 28 2020 FLZ168-290300- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0008.200128T1422Z-200129T0300Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 922 AM EST Tue Jan 28 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northern Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High Rip Current Risk for Northern Coastal Palm Beach County and Moderate Rip Current Risk for Southern Coastal Palm Beach County. 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. && $$ Weinman/Cohen
1 follow-up statement
674 WHUS42 KMFL 282026 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 326 PM EST Tue Jan 28 2020 FLZ168-290300- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-200129T0300Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 326 PM EST Tue Jan 28 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northern Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 10 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High Rip Current Risk for Northern Coastal Palm Beach County and Moderate Rip Current Risk for Southern Coastal Palm Beach County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Cohen
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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.