Rip Current, Miami-Dade
- When
- February 9, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Miami-Dade County, Miami Beach
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 25.609, -80.499 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Rip Current in Florida, February 9, 2001
A man nearly drowned in a rip current near Haulover Beach.
Where it happened
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- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MFL wrote it up.
A man nearly drowned in a rip current near Haulover Beach.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 9, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 9, 9:30 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
930 AM EST FRI FEB 9 2001
WE HAD A FEW SMALL SHOWERS MOVE IN FROM THE OCEAN THIS MORNING.
THEY SHOULD BE GONE BEFORE WE WOULD NEED ANY UPDATE ON THE ZONES SO
WILL LEAVE THE ZONES AS THEY ARE. ALL OBSERVATIONS SHOW THAT THE
COASTALS ARE PERFORMING AS EXPECTED.
.MIA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND
BISCAYNE BAY TODAY AND TONIGHT.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GULF COASTAL WATERS TODAY.In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 9, 11:00 AM EST, 3 hours before
FLZ063-066>075-092000- SOUTH FLORIDA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 1100 AM EST FRI FEB 9 2001 ...RIP CURRENTS LIKELY EAST COAST... AN EAST WIND OF 20 TO 25 MPH COMBINED WITH LOW TIDE AROUND 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON MEANS THAT RIP CURRENTS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP AT THE BEACHES OF PALM BEACH, BROWARD, AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTIES. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AND SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE REQUIRED. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/MIA.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 9, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Michigan, February 9 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Ohio, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flooding in Wisconsin, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flood in Michigan, February 9 to 14, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, February 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 9, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, February 9, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flooding in New York, February 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 9, 2001
More
Every storm in Florida in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, February 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5229247.