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Rip Current Statement 15, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 12, 2025, 2:15 AM EDT for Broward County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 12, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2025, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 12, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 66 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
- 2545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
503 WHUS42 KMFL 120615 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 215 AM EDT Wed Mar 12 2025 FLZ168-130000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0015.250312T1200Z-250313T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 215 AM EDT Wed Mar 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
279 WHUS42 KMFL 122310 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 710 PM EDT Wed Mar 12 2025 FLZ168-131200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-250314T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 710 PM EDT Wed Mar 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
998 WHUS42 KMFL 130604 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 204 AM EDT Thu Mar 13 2025 FLZ172-140000- /O.EXA.KMFL.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-250314T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County- 204 AM EDT Thu Mar 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward 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. && $$ FLZ168-140000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-250314T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 204 AM EDT Thu Mar 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.