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Rip Current Statement 44, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 30, 2025, 12:15 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 30, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2025, 12:15 AM EST (05:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 30, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 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 05:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 1543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
355 WHUS42 KMFL 300515 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1215 AM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 FLZ168-302000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0044.251230T1200Z-260101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1215 AM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
540 WHUS42 KMFL 301837 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 137 PM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 FLZ168-310800- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0044.000000T0000Z-260101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 137 PM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
412 WHUS42 KMFL 310553 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1253 AM EST Wed Dec 31 2025 FLZ168-010000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0044.000000T0000Z-260101T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1253 AM EST Wed Dec 31 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 30, 12:13 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | MFL | Collier, Glades, Hendry, Palm Beach | 33 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.