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Rip Current Statement 39, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 29, 2021, 3:15 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 29, 2021, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 29, 2021, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 29, 2021, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 1, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 60 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 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 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
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
318 WHUS42 KMFL 290815 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 315 AM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 FLZ168-291615- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0039.211129T1200Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 315 AM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through Wednesday 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
751 WHUS42 KMFL 291345 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 845 AM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 FLZ168-292145- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 845 AM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Fell
057 WHUS42 KMFL 300227 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 927 PM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 FLZ168-010000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 927 PM EST Mon Nov 29 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
992 WHUS42 KMFL 302332 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 632 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021 FLZ168-010745- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 632 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
741 WHUS42 KMFL 010318 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1018 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021 FLZ168-020000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 1018 PM EST Tue Nov 30 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
614 WHUS42 KMFL 010802 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 302 AM EST Wed Dec 1 2021 FLZ168-020000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-211202T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 302 AM EST Wed Dec 1 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.