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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 14, 2021, 3:42 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 15, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2021, 3:42 PM EDT (19:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 15, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 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 19:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
905 WHUS42 KMFL 141942 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 342 PM EDT Wed Apr 14 2021 FLZ168-150345- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0016.210415T1200Z-210416T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 342 PM EDT Wed Apr 14 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From Thursday morning through Thursday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
085 WHUS42 KMFL 150737 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 337 AM EDT Thu Apr 15 2021 FLZ168-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0016.210415T1200Z-210416T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 337 AM EDT Thu Apr 15 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.