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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 11, 2021, 3:36 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 11, 2021, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2021, 3:36 AM EST (08:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 11, 2021, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 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 08:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 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
- 301 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
363 WHUS42 KMFL 110836 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 336 AM EST Thu Feb 11 2021 FLZ168-111645- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0006.210211T1200Z-210212T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 336 AM EST Thu Feb 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
432 WHUS42 KMFL 112059 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 359 PM EST Thu Feb 11 2021 FLZ168-121200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-210213T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 359 PM EST Thu Feb 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
613 WHUS42 KMFL 120832 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 332 AM EST Fri Feb 12 2021 FLZ168-130000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-210213T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 332 AM EST Fri Feb 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Friday 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. && $$
030 WHUS42 KMFL 121426 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 926 AM EST Fri Feb 12 2021 FLZ168-130000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-210213T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 926 AM EST Fri Feb 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.