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Rip Current Statement 48, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 7, 2024, 2:50 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 7, 2024, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 55 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 2024, 2:50 AM EST (07:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 7, 2024, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2024, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 55 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 07:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 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
- 1614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
700 WHUS42 KMFL 070750 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 250 AM EST Sat Dec 7 2024 FLZ168-172-173-081000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0048.241207T1700Z-241209T0100Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 250 AM EST Sat Dec 7 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM NOON EST TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From noon EST today through Sunday 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
644 WHUS42 KMFL 080731 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 231 AM EST Sun Dec 8 2024 FLZ168-172-173-090100- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-241209T0100Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 231 AM EST Sun Dec 8 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
207 WHUS42 KMFL 081937 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 237 PM EST Sun Dec 8 2024 FLZ168-172-173-091200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-241210T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 237 PM EST Sun Dec 8 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
474 WHUS42 KMFL 090717 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 217 AM EST Mon Dec 9 2024 FLZ168-172-173-100000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-241210T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 217 AM EST Mon Dec 9 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
411 WHUS42 KMFL 092334 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 634 PM EST Mon Dec 9 2024 FLZ168-172-173-100045- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-241210T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 634 PM EST Mon Dec 9 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... The high risk for rip currents will be allowed to expire, but an elevated risk of rip currents will continue for the Atlantic beaches through most of the week. $$
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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.