Several days with a moderate to high risk for rip currents occurred along the Brevard County beaches. A man who was in the ocean off Cocoa Beach drowned after being caught in a rip current.
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.
The episode as NWS MLB wrote it up.
Several days with a moderate to high risk for rip currents occurred along the Brevard County beaches. A man who was in the ocean off Cocoa Beach drowned after being caught in a rip current.
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 Melbourne, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 2:23 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 323 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2007 .DISCUSSION... TODAY/TONIGHT...SHORT WAVE TROUGH ACROSS WESTERN CUBA CONTINUES TO SHOW LITTLE MOVEMENT TO THE NORTH...AS THE WESTERN ATLANTIC RIDGE REMAINS SUPPRESSED FAR TO THE SOUTH NEAR THE WINDWARD PASSAGE. WHILE IT IS LIKELY SOME DEEPER MOISTURE WILL EVENTUALLY LIFT NORTHWARD THIS AFTERNOON...GFS DEPICTION (WHICH INCLUDES NUMEROUS CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES PROPAGATING NORTHEASTWARD ALONG AN INVERTED TROUGH ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA) IS LIKELY TOO AGGRESSIVE. WILL BE UNDERCUTTING GFS MOS POPS AGAIN FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT. HOWEVER...SUFFICIENT MOISTURE/INSTABILITY ALONG THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE BOUNDARY MAY TRIGGER AN ISOLATED LOW-TOPPED SHOWER THIS AFTERNOON. SUN...TROUGH ALOFT WILL BE SHIFTING OFF THE EASTERN SEABOARD AND WEAK MID LEVEL RIDGING WILL PREVAIL BEHIND IT. BROAD LOW LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE ATLANTIC WILL PRODUCE A SOUTHERLY COMPONENT TO THE WIND FLOW WHICH SHOULD CONTINUE TO ADVECT MOISTURE NORTHWARD. WILL STAY WITH SCATTERED POPS FROM PREVIOUS FORECAST...WITH THE HIGHEST VALUES IN THE SOUTH. THIS IS STILL SLIGHTLY BELOW THE MAV MOS VALUES. EXPECT BULK OF ACTIVITY TO BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS BOUNDARY INTERACTIONS INCREASE. IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WILL BE ENOUGH WESTERLY STEERING FLOW TO PUSH INTERIOR ACTIVITY BACK TOWARDS THE COAST. MON-FRI...MOISTURE VALUES FORECAST TO REMAIN AT OR ABOVE NORMAL. MID LEVEL RIDGE IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN TUE AND WITH DECENT MOISTURE AND A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT...EXPECT THAT A FEW AFTERNOON STORMS COULD BE STRONG. WILL GO WITH A TYPICAL WET SEASON FORECAST FOR SCATTERED POPS. MAIN ACTIVITY SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL NOT TRY TO DIFFERENTIATE WHERE THE HIGHEST COVERAGE WILL BE AT THIS POINT. HOWEVER IT LOOKS LIKE STEERING WILL BECOME WEAK BY TUE WHICH SHOULD FAVOR INTERIOR SECTIONS FOR GREATEST RAIN CHANCES. FRONTAL BOUNDARY MOVING INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES SHOULD SHIFT LOW LEVEL RIDGE AXIS SOUTH AND INCREASE WESTERLY STEERING LATE IN THE WEEK. && .AVIATION...CIGS/VSBYS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN VFR EXCEPT IN ISOLATED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THIS AFTERNOON. PROBS ARE TOO LOW TO INCLUDE MENTION OF SHRA/TSRA IN THE TAFS...EXCEPT AT VRB. && .MARINE...TODAY/TONIGHT...NAM-WRF PRESSURE PATTERN WAS LARGELY UTILIZED DUE TO LIKELY CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK CONTAMINATION IN THE GFS. EXPECT A CONTINUATION OF THE LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW...WITH SEAS TOPPING OUT AROUND 4 FT. SUN-MON...POSITION OF SURFACE RIDGE JUST TO THE NORTH SHOULD PROVIDE AN ONSHORE FLOW...THOUGH THE GFS HAS SOME CONVECTIVELY INDUCED SOUTH/SOUTHWEST FLOW. PLAN TO STAY WITH MAINLY A SOUTHEAST FLOW AT 10 KNOTS OR LESS. NORTHEAST SWELL MAY LINGER INTO SUNDAY AND KEEP SEA HEIGHTS 3-4 FEET. SCATTERED STORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH ACTIVITY OVER LAND LIKELY MOVING ACROSS THE COAST IN THE AFTERNOON. TUE-WED...RIDGE AXIS FORECAST TO BE CLOSE TO THE AREA WHICH SHOULD PRODUCE LESS THAN 10 KNOT WINDS EXCEPT FOR A SEA BREEZE NEAR THE COAST. SEAS SHOULD BE AROUND 2 FEET. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... DAB 85 72 86 71 / 20 10 30 20 MCO 88 72 87 72 / 20 10 40 20 MLB 86 73 85 72 / 30 20 40 20 VRB 86 73 86 72 / 30 20 50 20 && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...HIRSCH LONG TERM....LASCODY
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 551 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2007 AMZ550-555-570-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141-144-147- 170930- COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO COCOA BEACH 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM COCOA BEACH TO JUPITER INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- INLAND VOLUSIA-NORTHERN LAKE-ORANGE-SEMINOLE-SOUTHERN BREVARD- OSCEOLA-INDIAN RIVER-OKEECHOBEE-ST. LUCIE-MARTIN-COASTAL VOLUSIA- SOUTHERN LAKE-NORTHERN BREVARD- 551 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ...THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INITIALLY DEVELOP ALONG THE EAST COAST EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON BEFORE SPREADING INLAND LATER IN THE DAY. ISOLATED CELLS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING...WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. CONDITIONS WILL IMPROVE EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE FOCUS SHIFTS WEST OF THE AREA. ...RIP CURRENT IMPACT... WAVE CONDITIONS SUPPORT A MODERATE THREAT FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. ONLY EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS SHOULD ENTER THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...STAY CALM AND SWIM PARALLEL TO THE BEACH UNTIL THE CURRENT WEAKENS...THEN SWIM TOWARDS SHORE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN IN THE FORECAST THROUGH NEXT WEEK. LIGHTNING IS FLORIDAS NUMBER ONE WEATHER RELATED KILLER AND WILL LIKELY BE THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. HIRSCH
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 26 year old man from Orlando, who was likely overcome by a rip current, was pulled out of the ocean by swimmers near First Street and Atlantic Avenue in Cocoa Beach. Rescuers performed CPR to the man after finding him unconscious, but their efforts to revive him proved unsuccessful. An autopsy confirmed he died from drowning.
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, Brevard | 2007-06-17 | 26 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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