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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Miami, FL
NWS Miami, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 15, 2026, 3:16 AM EST for Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Palm Beach County, Florida. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2026, 3:16 AM EST (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2026, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 25 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 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Miami, FL (KMFL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1025 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
432 WHUS42 KMFL 150816 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 316 AM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 FLZ168-172-173-160900- /O.NEW.KMFL.RP.S.0010.260215T0816Z-260216T0900Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 316 AM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
192 WHUS42 KMFL 151429 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 929 AM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 FLZ168-172-173-160900- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-260216T0900Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 929 AM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Baxter
770 WHUS42 KMFL 151842 CFWMFL Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Miami FL 142 PM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 FLZ168-172-173-160900- /O.CON.KMFL.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-260216T0900Z/ Coastal Palm Beach County-Coastal Broward County- Coastal Miami Dade County- 142 PM EST Sun Feb 15 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Palm Beach County, Coastal Broward County and Coastal Miami Dade County. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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.