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Rip Current Statement 41, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 13, 2025, 1:06 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2025, 1:06 AM EST (06:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 24 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 06:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
490 WHUS42 KMFL 130606 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 106 AM EST Sat Dec 13 2025 FLZ168-172-173-131815- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0041.251213T0606Z-251214T0600Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 106 AM EST Sat Dec 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
751 WHUS42 KMFL 131650 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1150 AM EST Sat Dec 13 2025 FLZ168-172-173-140600- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-251214T0600Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 1150 AM EST Sat Dec 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.