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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 5, 2025, 6:59 PM EST for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2025, 6:59 PM EST (23:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
County Collier County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 141 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 511 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1012 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted.
948 WHUS42 KMFL 052359 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 659 PM EST Wed Mar 5 2025 FLZ168-172-173-060100- /O.CAN.KMFL.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-250306T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 659 PM EST Wed Mar 5 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The risk of rip currents has decreased across the Atlantic coast. $$ FLZ069-061400- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0013.250306T0300Z-250307T0600Z/ Coastal Collier County- 659 PM EST Wed Mar 5 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 PM EST THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...From 10 PM EST this evening through late Thursday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
3 follow-up statements
829 WHUS42 KMFL 060637 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 137 AM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 FLZ069-062100- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250307T0600Z/ Coastal Collier County- 137 AM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
615 WHUS42 KMFL 061401 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 901 AM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 FLZ069-070000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250307T0600Z/ Coastal Collier County- 901 AM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
303 WHUS42 KMFL 062358 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 658 PM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 FLZ069-070600- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250307T0600Z/ Coastal Collier County- 658 PM EST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST FRIDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 3:25 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | MFL | Broward, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Monroe and 1 more | 28 hr |
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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.