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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Miami, FL

March 6, 2024Palm Beach County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 6, 2024, 2:08 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 6, 2024, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 2024, 2:08 AM EST (07:08 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 6, 2024, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 6, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
In force
12 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 07:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2024-03-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 990 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Miami, FL at 00:00Z on 2024-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

As transmitted.

881 
WHUS42 KMFL 060708
CFWMFL

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Miami FL
208 AM EST Wed Mar 6 2024

FLZ168-070000-
/O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0016.240306T1200Z-240307T0000Z/
Coastal Palm Beach County-
208 AM EST Wed Mar 6 2024

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County.

* WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 4:28 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade32 min
Mar 6, 4:48 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade27 min
Mar 6, 4:53 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward, Miami-Dade37 min
Mar 6, 5:29 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward31 min
Mar 6, 5:30 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL45 min
Mar 6, 5:34 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward, Miami-Dade26 min
Mar 6, 5:40 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryMFLMiami-Dade85 min
Mar 6, 5:41 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL49 min
Mar 6, 6:09 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL66 min
Mar 6, 7:08 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL67 min
Mar 6, 11:14 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL31 min
Mar 6, 11:39 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL66 min
Mar 6, 12:19 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier41 min
Mar 6, 12:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLCollier, Hendry31 min
Mar 6, 1:01 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL29 min
Mar 6, 1:07 PM ESTTornado WarningMFLCollier, Hendry23 min
Mar 6, 1:30 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL30 min
Mar 6, 1:30 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier45 min
Mar 6, 1:51 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL39 min
Mar 6, 1:57 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLCollier33 min
Mar 6, 2:25 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade35 min
Mar 6, 2:27 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward48 min
Mar 6, 2:30 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL2 hr
Mar 6, 3:01 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade29 min
Mar 6, 3:06 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward39 min
Mar 6, 3:12 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMFLBroward29 min
Mar 6, 3:27 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL48 min
Mar 6, 3:29 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLMiami-Dade31 min
Mar 6, 3:33 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryMFLMiami-Dade117 min
Mar 6, 3:39 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementMFLBroward36 min
Mar 6, 5:17 PM ESTSpecial Marine WarningMFL43 min

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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.