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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 15, 2022, 9:47 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2022, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 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 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 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
- 600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
689 WHUS42 KMFL 160147 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 947 PM EDT Fri Apr 15 2022 FLZ168-172-173-170000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0016.220416T0147Z-220417T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 947 PM EDT Fri Apr 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
357 WHUS42 KMFL 162355 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 755 PM EDT Sat Apr 16 2022 FLZ168-172-173-170100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-220417T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 755 PM EDT Sat Apr 16 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The winds have decreased early this evening to 10 to 15 knots and should remain at these speeds through tonight. Therefore, the High Rip Current Risk will be allow to expire at 8 PM EDT this evening. $$ 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.