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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 3, 2023, 1:50 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2023, 1:50 AM EST (06:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 17 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 06:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
021 WHUS42 KMFL 030650 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 150 AM EST Tue Jan 3 2023 FLZ168-172-173-040000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0001.230103T0650Z-230104T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 150 AM EST Tue Jan 3 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
067 WHUS42 KMFL 032350 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 650 PM EST Tue Jan 3 2023 FLZ168-172-173-040100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-230104T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 650 PM EST Tue Jan 3 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... The risk of rip currents has decreased into the moderate range and therefore the rip current statement will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.