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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 15, 2023, 3:05 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2023, 3:05 AM EST (08:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2023, 6:32 PM EST
- In force
- 39 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 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1159 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
754 WHUS42 KMFL 150805 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 305 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023 FLZ168-172-173-160900- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0008.230215T0805Z-230217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 305 AM EST Wed Feb 15 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
687 WHUS42 KMFL 160009 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 709 PM EST Wed Feb 15 2023 FLZ168-172-173-160815- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-230217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 709 PM EST Wed Feb 15 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
254 WHUS42 KMFL 160850 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 350 AM EST Thu Feb 16 2023 FLZ168-172-173-170000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-230217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward-Coastal Miami-Dade- 350 AM EST Thu Feb 16 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach, Coastal Broward and Coastal Miami- Dade Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
411 WHUS42 KMFL 162332 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 632 PM EST Thu Feb 16 2023 FLZ168-172-170900- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-230217T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0009.230217T0000Z-230218T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach-Coastal Broward- 632 PM EST Thu Feb 16 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach and Coastal Broward Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ173-170045- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-230217T0000Z/ Coastal Miami-Dade- 632 PM EST Thu Feb 16 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The rip current risk has lessened for Miami-Dade County. $$
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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.