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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 15, 2024, 7:53 PM EDT for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 16, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2024, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 16, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 17, 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 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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
- 1084 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
984 WHUS42 KMFL 152353 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 753 PM EDT Mon Apr 15 2024 FLZ168-172-173-161800- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0023.240416T1200Z-240418T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 753 PM EDT Mon Apr 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Tuesday morning 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
714 WHUS42 KMFL 161759 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 159 PM EDT Tue Apr 16 2024 FLZ168-172-173-170900- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-240418T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 159 PM EDT Tue Apr 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
747 WHUS42 KMFL 170506 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 106 AM EDT Wed Apr 17 2024 FLZ168-172-173-180000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-240418T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 106 AM EDT Wed Apr 17 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 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. && $$
673 WHUS42 KMFL 172353 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 753 PM EDT Wed Apr 17 2024 FLZ168-172-173-180100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-240418T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 753 PM EDT Wed Apr 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The rip current risk has decreased and therefore the statement will be allowed to expire. $$
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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.