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High Surf Advisory 2, NWS Miami, FL

January 31, 2026Collier County, Florida

NWS Miami, FL issued this high surf advisory at Jan 31, 2026, 12:07 AM EST for Collier County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 31, 2026, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 31, 2026, 12:07 AM EST (05:07 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 1, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Miami, FL

County Collier County, FL

The radar

The Miami radar (KAMX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1103 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Miami, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Jan 30, 6:53 PM EST, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 6:53 PM EST, 5 hours 14 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Miami, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 31, 12:07 AM EST	Rip Current Statement	MFL	Broward, Collier, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach	6 days

Nearby

High Surf Advisories in Florida, 2026 Every high surf advisory in 2026

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.