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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 11, 2025, 6:06 PM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 12, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2025, 6:06 PM EST (23:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 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 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
938 WHUS42 KMFL 112306 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 606 PM EST Tue Feb 11 2025 FLZ168-172-173-121215- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0007.250212T1500Z-250213T1200Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 606 PM EST Tue Feb 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Thursday 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
459 WHUS42 KMFL 120737 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 237 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ168-172-173-122100- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0007.250212T1200Z-250213T1200Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 237 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
762 WHUS42 KMFL 121913 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 213 PM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ168-172-131200- /O.EXT.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250214T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 213 PM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward 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. && $$ FLZ173-131200- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250213T1200Z/ Coastal Miami Dade County- 213 PM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
213 WHUS42 KMFL 131332 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 832 AM EST Thu Feb 13 2025 FLZ168-172-140000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250214T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 832 AM EST Thu Feb 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County and Coastal Broward 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. && $$
587 WHUS42 KMFL 132352 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 652 PM EST Thu Feb 13 2025 FLZ168-172-140100- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250214T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- 652 PM EST Thu Feb 13 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... . $$
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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.