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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 14, 2025, 3:04 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 15, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2025, 3:04 PM EST (20:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 15, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 16, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 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 20:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 722 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
126 WHUS42 KMFL 142004 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 304 PM EST Tue Jan 14 2025 FLZ168-172-173-150900- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0003.250115T1200Z-250116T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 304 PM EST Tue Jan 14 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Wednesday 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. && $$
6 follow-up statements
371 WHUS42 KMFL 150803 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 303 AM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 FLZ168-172-173-151615- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0003.250115T1200Z-250116T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 303 AM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
461 WHUS42 KMFL 151539 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1039 AM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 FLZ168-172-173-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250116T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 1039 AM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST 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. && $$
635 WHUS42 KMFL 151841 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 141 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 FLZ168-160245- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250117T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 141 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ172-173-160000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250116T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 141 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST 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. && $$
304 WHUS42 KMFL 152352 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 652 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 FLZ172-173-160100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250116T0000Z/ Coastal Broward County-Coastal Miami Dade County- 652 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... $$ FLZ168-160800- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250117T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 652 PM EST Wed Jan 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * 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. && $$
471 WHUS42 KMFL 160757 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 257 AM EST Thu Jan 16 2025 FLZ168-170000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250117T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 257 AM EST Thu Jan 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
615 WHUS42 KMFL 162333 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 633 PM EST Thu Jan 16 2025 FLZ168-170045- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250117T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 633 PM EST Thu Jan 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... The high rip current risk will be allowed to expire at 7 PM as conditions improve. The threat for rip currents will remain elevated at Palm Beach County beaches through the remainder of the week. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 7:35 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | MFL | Broward, Miami-Dade | 2 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.