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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 22, 2022, 2:23 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 2022, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2022, 4:02 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
323 WHUS42 KMFL 221823 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 223 PM EDT Wed Jun 22 2022 FLZ168-172-173-230230- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0024.220622T1823Z-220623T1000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 223 PM EDT Wed Jun 22 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
471 WHUS42 KMFL 230414 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1214 AM EDT Thu Jun 23 2022 FLZ168-172-173-231000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-220623T1000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 1214 AM EDT Thu Jun 23 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM EDT EARLY THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 AM EDT early this morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
324 WHUS42 KMFL 230802 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 402 AM EDT Thu Jun 23 2022 FLZ168-172-173-230915- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-220623T1000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 402 AM EDT Thu Jun 23 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The easterly winds have decreased early this morning which has allowed for the threat of Rip currents to decreased. Therefore, the High Rip Current Risk has been cancelled for the east coast beaches of South Florida. $$ 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.