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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 17, 2025, 1:02 AM EST for Palm Beach County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 17, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2025, 1:02 AM EST (06:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 12 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 06:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
369 WHUS42 KMFL 170602 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 102 AM EST Mon Feb 17 2025 FLZ168-180000- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0009.250217T1200Z-250218T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 102 AM EST Mon Feb 17 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
594 WHUS42 KMFL 171501 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 1001 AM EST Mon Feb 17 2025 FLZ168-180000- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-250218T0000Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County- 1001 AM EST Mon Feb 17 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County. * WHEN...From 7 AM EST this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.