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Rip Current Statement 30, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 24, 2021, 2:06 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Aug 25, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2021, 2:06 PM EDT (18:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 25, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 2643 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
973 WHUS42 KMFL 241806 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 206 PM EDT Tue Aug 24 2021 FLZ168-172-173-251200- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0030.210825T1200Z-210827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 206 PM EDT Tue Aug 24 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...From Wednesday 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. && $$ Baxter
4 follow-up statements
137 WHUS42 KMFL 250753 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 353 AM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021 FLZ168-172-173-270000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0030.210825T1200Z-210827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 353 AM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
577 WHUS42 KMFL 252045 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 445 PM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021 FLZ168-172-173-261215- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-210827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 445 PM EDT Wed Aug 25 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...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. && $$
482 WHUS42 KMFL 261118 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 718 AM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021 FLZ168-172-173-270000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-210827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 718 AM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward, Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
666 WHUS42 KMFL 270001 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 801 PM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021 FLZ168-172-173-270115- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-210827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 801 PM EDT Thu Aug 26 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The easterly winds have decrease a little bit this evening and should remain at 10 to 15 knots tonight. Therefore, the High Risk of Rip Currents has been allowed to expired. $$ Baxter
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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.