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Rip Current Statement 36, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 29, 2025, 4:04 AM EDT for Broward County, Collier County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 30, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 2025, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Miami, FL
Counties Broward County, FL, Collier County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL
The radar
The Miami radar (KAMX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 730 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
295 WHUS42 KMFL 290804 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 404 AM EDT Wed Oct 29 2025 FLZ069-168-172-292100- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0036.251030T0600Z-251031T1200Z/ Coastal Collier County-Coastal Palm Beach County- Coastal Broward County- 404 AM EDT Wed Oct 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...From late tonight through Friday morning. * 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
064 WHUS42 KMFL 291203 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 803 AM EDT Wed Oct 29 2025 FLZ069-168-172-300600- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0036.251030T0600Z-251031T1200Z/ Coastal Collier County-Coastal Palm Beach County- Coastal Broward County- 803 AM EDT Wed Oct 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...From late tonight through Friday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
107 WHUS42 KMFL 300439 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1239 AM EDT Thu Oct 30 2025 FLZ069-168-172-301800- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0036.251030T0600Z-251031T1200Z/ Coastal Collier County-Coastal Palm Beach County- Coastal Broward County- 1239 AM EDT Thu Oct 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...From late tonight through Friday morning. * 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. && $$
257 WHUS42 KMFL 301730 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 130 PM EDT Thu Oct 30 2025 FLZ168-311200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-251101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 130 PM EDT Thu Oct 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ069-172-311200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-251031T1200Z/ Coastal Collier County-Coastal Broward County- 130 PM EDT Thu Oct 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...From late tonight through Friday morning. * 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. && $$
170 WHUS42 KMFL 311402 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1002 AM EDT Fri Oct 31 2025 FLZ168-010000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-251101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1002 AM EDT Fri Oct 31 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Collier County, Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward County. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
279 WHUS42 KMFL 312346 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 746 PM EDT Fri Oct 31 2025 FLZ168-010100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-251101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 746 PM EDT Fri Oct 31 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... Decreasing wave heights at the beaches of Palm Beach will lead to decreasing rip currents this evening. $$ Molleda
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 4:04 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MFL | 46 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.