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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 26, 2022, 7:19 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2022, 7:19 PM EST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 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 00:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
173 WHUS42 KMFL 270019 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 719 PM EST Sat Feb 26 2022 FLZ168-280000- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-220227T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0009.220227T0019Z-220228T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 719 PM EST Sat Feb 26 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$ FLZ172-173-270130- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-220227T0000Z/ Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 719 PM EST Sat Feb 26 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... The high rip current risk for Miami and Broward counties has diminished to a moderate rip current risk at this time, thus the high rip current risk has been allowed to expire. $$
2 follow-up statements
488 WHUS42 KMFL 271329 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 829 AM EST Sun Feb 27 2022 FLZ168-272130- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-220228T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 829 AM EST Sun Feb 27 2022 ...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. && $$ Fell
401 WHUS42 KMFL 272354 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 654 PM EST Sun Feb 27 2022 FLZ168-280100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-220228T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach- 654 PM EST Sun Feb 27 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... The risk of high rip currents along the Palm Beach coast has diminished this evening, thus the rip current statement has been allowed to expire at 7pm this evening. Although the statement is expiring, it is important to note that a moderate risk of rip currents is forecast for the Palm Beach coast on Monday. $$
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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.