Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 26, 2023, 3:55 AM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2023, 3:55 AM EDT (07:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 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 07:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 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
- 1417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
569 WHUS42 KMFL 260755 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 355 AM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 FLZ168-261600- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0029.230826T0755Z-230827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 355 AM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
705 WHUS42 KMFL 261516 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1116 AM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 FLZ168-270000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-230827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1116 AM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
051 WHUS42 KMFL 262351 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 751 PM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 FLZ168-270100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-230827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 751 PM EDT Sat Aug 26 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... $$
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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.