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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Melbourne, FL

September 4, 2024Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida

NWS Melbourne, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 4, 2024, 2:59 AM EDT for Brevard County, Volusia County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 4, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 4, 2024, 2:59 AM EDT (06:59 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 4, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 5, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Melbourne, FL

Counties Brevard County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 811 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

061 
WHUS42 KMLB 040659
CFWMLB

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Melbourne FL
259 AM EDT Wed Sep 4 2024

FLZ141-347-447-050800-
/O.NEW.KMLB.RP.S.0023.240904T0800Z-240905T0800Z/
Coastal Volusia-Mainland Northern Brevard-
Northern Brevard Barrier Islands-
259 AM EDT Wed Sep 4 2024

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Coastal Volusia, Mainland Northern Brevard and 
  Northern Brevard Barrier Islands Counties.

* WHEN...Through late tonight.

* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away
  from shore into deeper water.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away
from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the
sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as jetties and
piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and
signs.

Entering the surf is strongly discouraged. 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 Melbourne, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 2:55 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MLB		18 hr
Sep 4, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Okeechobee	32 min
Sep 4, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Seminole	23 min
Sep 4, 3:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Orange, Seminole, Volusia	112 min
Sep 4, 3:46 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	MLB	Seminole	3 hr
Sep 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	MLB	Orange, Seminole	2 hr
Sep 4, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	47 min
Sep 4, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MLB	Osceola	112 min
Sep 4, 6:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	MLB	Orange	27 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.