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Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 26, 2025, 12:43 PM EDT for Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2025, 12:43 PM EDT (16:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 16:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 632 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
008 WHUS42 KMFL 261643 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1243 PM EDT Tue Aug 26 2025 FLZ168-270000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0029.250826T1643Z-250827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1243 PM EDT Tue Aug 26 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
330 WHUS42 KMFL 262341 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 741 PM EDT Tue Aug 26 2025 FLZ168-270045- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-250827T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 741 PM EDT Tue Aug 26 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The risk for rip currents has decreased and therefore the Rip Current Statement will be allowed to expire. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 24 min |
| Aug 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 30 min |
| Aug 26, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MFL | Miami-Dade | 25 min |
| Aug 26, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Palm Beach | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MFL | Broward | 29 min |
Nearby
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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.