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Rip Current Statement 47, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 4, 2024, 7:02 PM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2024, 7:02 PM EST (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 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 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
516 WHUS42 KMFL 050002 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 702 PM EST Wed Dec 4 2024 FLZ168-060000- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0046.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0047.241205T0002Z-241206T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 702 PM EST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$ FLZ172-173-050115- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0046.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 702 PM EST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Rip current risk has dropped for Broward and Miami Dade beaches. $$
1 follow-up statement
066 WHUS42 KMFL 050507 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1207 AM EST Thu Dec 5 2024 FLZ168-060000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0047.000000T0000Z-241206T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1207 AM EST Thu Dec 5 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * 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. && $$
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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.