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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 27, 2024, 1:08 AM EST for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 27, 2024, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2024, 1:08 AM EST (06:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2024, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 1508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
816 WHUS42 KMFL 270608 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 108 AM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 FLZ168-172-272000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0014.240227T1800Z-240229T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 108 AM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...From 1 PM EST this afternoon through Wednesday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
828 WHUS42 KMFL 272029 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 329 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 FLZ168-172-281200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-240229T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 329 PM EST Tue Feb 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
512 WHUS42 KMFL 280606 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 106 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 FLZ168-172-290000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-240229T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 106 AM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
589 WHUS42 KMFL 282336 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 636 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 FLZ168-172-290045- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-240229T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 636 PM EST Wed Feb 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. $$
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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.