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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 15, 2025, 2:29 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2025, 2:29 AM EST (07:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 41 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 07:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1170 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
849 WHUS42 KMFL 150729 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 229 AM EST Sat Feb 15 2025 FLZ168-172-173-160000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0008.250215T0729Z-250217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 229 AM EST Sat Feb 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
078 WHUS42 KMFL 151402 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 902 AM EST Sat Feb 15 2025 FLZ168-172-173-161100- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 902 AM EST Sat Feb 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Baxter
398 WHUS42 KMFL 160603 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 103 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 FLZ168-172-173-170000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 103 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
928 WHUS42 KMFL 162333 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 633 PM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 FLZ168-172-173-170045- /O.EXP.KMFL.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250217T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 633 PM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... The high risk of rip currents across the Atlantic Coast beaches has subsided, but the risk of rip currents will remain elevated through the early portion of the week. $$
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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.