Rip Current in Florida, January 3, 2007

Name: Rip Current in Florida, January 3, 2007
Start: 2007-01-03T10:55
End: 2007-01-03T10:55
Location: Florida

January 3, 2007 · NWS MFL · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Rip currents affected Southeast Florida beaches over New Year's Weekend 2007.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
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.

Rip currents affected Southeast Florida beaches over New Year's Weekend 2007.

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 Jan 3, 10:40 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 10:40 AM EST, 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
1040 AM EST WED JAN 3 2007

.DISCUSSION...
PATCHY FOG HAS FINALLY DISSIPATED IN THE NAPLES VICINITY. MORNING
SATELLITE IMAGES FROM THE VISIBLE CHANNEL SHOW SOME THICK PATCHES OF
CIRRUS MOVING EAST OVER MAINLAND SOUTH FLORIDA...WITH A LOW-LEVEL CU
FIELD DEVELOPING...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EAST COAST METRO AREAS WHERE
AIR TEMPERATURES ARE ALREADY APPROACHING 80F. LATEST MIAMI DOPPLER
RADAR SCANS DETECT A FEW LIGHT TO MODERATE SHOWERS OVER PALM BEACH
COUNTY...AND OVER THE STRAITS OF FLORIDA NEAR BIMINI.

THE FIRST PERIOD FORECAST IS ON TRACK. UPDATES WERE ISSUED TO REMOVE
MENTION OF FOG AND ADJUST AFTERNOON TRANSITION. THE MIAMI MORNING
SOUNDING MODIFIED WITH A SURFACE PARCEL OF 83F/71F INDICATES SBCAPE
OF NEAR 3000 J/KG WITH LITTLE CONVECTIVE INHIBITION. HOWEVER...DRY
AIR WAS PRESENT IN THE 850-700MB LAYER...AND WILL PROBABLY LIMIT
BUOYANCY AND CONVECTIVE CELL COVERAGE. A FORECAST OF CHANCE CATEGORY
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER LOOKS SOUND.
&&

.AVIATION...
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ALONG THE SOUTH
FLORIDA AVIATION ROUTES...INCLUDING THE TERMINALS OF MIAMI...PALM
BEACH...NAPLES...AND MIAMI. FOG AFFECTING THE NAPLES TERMINAL THIS
MORNING HAS DISSIPATED...AND NO FURTHER PROBLEMS ARE ANTICIPATED AT
THAT TERMINAL. ISOLATED SHOWERS ALONG THE ROUTE THROUGHOUT THE DAY
WILL PRODUCE BRIEF PERIODS OF MVFR CONDITIONS. SURFACE WINDS WILL BE
MAINLY EASTERLY NEAR 10 KNOTS...WITH WINDS GENERALLY EASTERLY NEAR
10 KNOTS OFF THE DECK THROUGH FL050.
&&

.MARINE...
E/SE FLOW 10 TO 15 KTS INCREASING TONIGHT INTO THU WITH EXERCISE
CAUTION ATLC AND OUTER GULF WATERS THU NIGHT INTO EARLY FRI.
HIGHLIGHT ATLC WATERS WILL CONTINUE FRI. WINDS/SEAS DECREASE FOR THE
WEEKEND.
&&

.FIRE WEATHER...NO PROBLEMS.
&&

.MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...NONE.
AM...NONE.
GM...NONE.

KBK/AD/JR

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 3, 4:43 AM EST, 6 hours 12 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL
443 AM EST WED JAN 3 2007

FLZ063-066>075-032145-
GLADES-HENDRY-PALM BEACH WESTERN-PALM BEACH EASTERN-
WESTERN COLLIER-EASTERN COLLIER-WESTERN BROWARD-
BROWARD METROPOLITAN-WESTERN DADE-DADE METROPOLITAN-
MAINLAND MONROE-
443 AM EST WED JAN 3 2007

...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA TODAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS: A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTH
FLORIDA AGAIN TODAY. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM ANY THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES, AS WELL AS
HEAVY RAINFALL.

FLOODING: ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DOES DEVELOP TODAY WILL LIKELY BE
SLOW MOVING. THUS, MINOR FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AND FLOOD-PRONE
AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE.

RIP CURRENTS: THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ACROSS
THE ATLANTIC COAST BEACHES TODAY DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF ONSHORE
WINDS AND LOW TIDES DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. SWIMMERS ARE
URGED TO FOLLOW THE ADVICE AND WARNINGS OF LIFEGUARDS ON DUTY, AND
TO EXERCISE CAUTION WHEN ENTERING THE WATER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

THE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS WILL INCREASE ONCE AGAIN THURSDAY AND
LAST THROUGH THE WEEKEND ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST AS ONSHORE WINDS
STRENGTHEN.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY.

FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.MIAMIWEATHER.INFO.

The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Coastal Broward County

When: January 3, 10:55 AM EST
Where: Coastal Broward County forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 26.152, -80.456 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A 70 year old tourist from Pennsylvania drowned while fighting rip currents at an unguarded beach behind the Pink Palms Condominiums at the 2100 block of North Ocean Drive in Fort Lauderdale Beach. |This was the second tourist to drown as a result of rip currents during the New Year's Weekend of 2007. Unseasonably warm weather along with strong east winds attracted hundreds of beach goers.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Rip Current, Coastal Broward County	2007-01-03	70	Male	In Water	Direct

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

Every storm in Florida in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, January 2007

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: 11031.