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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 10, 2024, 7:06 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 11, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2024, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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 23:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 658 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted.
683 WHUS42 KMFL 102306 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 706 PM EDT Sun Mar 10 2024 FLZ168-172-173-130000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0017.240311T1200Z-240313T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 706 PM EDT Sun Mar 10 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Monday morning through Tuesday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
759 WHUS42 KMFL 111647 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1247 PM EDT Mon Mar 11 2024 FLZ168-172-173-120100- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240313T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 1247 PM EDT Mon Mar 11 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Monday morning through Tuesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
927 WHUS42 KMFL 111840 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 240 PM EDT Mon Mar 11 2024 FLZ168-172-173-120900- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240313T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 240 PM EDT Mon Mar 11 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Tuesday 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. && $$
950 WHUS42 KMFL 120831 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 431 AM EDT Tue Mar 12 2024 FLZ168-172-173-130000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240313T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 431 AM EDT Tue Mar 12 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.