A 23-year old male drowned in a rip current while in the surf about 100 feet offshore Cape Canaveral.
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.
A 23-year old male drowned in a rip current while in the surf about 100 feet offshore Cape Canaveral.
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 25, 8:20 AM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 920 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 .DISCUSSION...NOT MUCH CHANGE IN THE FORECAST FROM YESTERDAY AS THE LOW LEVEL RIDGE AXIS TO OUR NORTH ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA SINKS SOUTHWARDS INTO NORTH FLORIDA BY THIS EVENING. AS WITH YESTERDAY...THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE WILL DEVELOP EARLY AND PUSH INLAND WITH PURPOSE BUT NOT AS QUICKLY AS YESTERDAY SINCE THE ONSHORE (E/SE) FLOW WILL BE SLIGHTLY WEAKER. THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE WILL STILL DOMINANT...PUSHING THE SEA BREEZE COLLISION ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE PENINSULA ONCE AGAIN THIS EVENING. HOWEVER THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE WILL HAVE MORE TIME TO MOVE INLAND AND THE COLLISION WILL BE A LITTLE FARTHER EAST THAN YESTERDAY...BUT LIKELY STILL JUST WEST OF LAKE COUNTY. MODEL SOUNDINGS THIS MORNING SHOW DRY AIR REMAINING IN THE MID LEVELS THANKS TO UPPER RIDGING OVERHEAD...ALONG WITH FAIRLY WARM 700 MB TEMPERATURES AT +9C. THIS SUPPRESSIVE AFFECT KEEP RAIN CHANCES BELOW NORMAL RAIN CHANCES AGAIN WITH A SLOW START TO ACTIVITY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE. BEYOND THE FEW SPRINKLES ONGOING ALONG THE SAINT LUCIE/MARTIN COUNTY COAST...WILL KEEP THE COAST DRY EAST OF I-95 FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE DAY. BEST RAIN CHANCES WILL REMAIN INLAND ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN ORANGE AND LAKE COUNTIES AS THE SEA BREEZE INTERACTS WITH LAKE BREEZES AND MAX TEMPS IN THE LOWER 90S...WITH A FEW MID 90S POSSIBLE. && .AVIATION...ONSHORE (E/SE) FLOW AROUND 10 KNOTS WILL CONTINUE TODAY...10-15 KNOTS ALONG THE COAST BEHIND THE SEA BREEZE. ISOLD ATLC SHRA BRUSHING COAST SOUTH OF KFPR THROUGH 15Z WITH ACTIVITY DEVELOPING JUST INLAND OF ALL COASTAL SITES AFTER THAT TIME. COVERAGE WILL SHIFT INLAND ALONG EAST COAST SEA BREEZE WITH VCTS INTERIOR TERMINALS AFT 18Z...MOVING WEST OF ALL BUT KLEE AFTER 22Z. && .MARINE...LOW LEVEL RIDGE AXIS WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE WATERS TODAY BUT WILL BEGIN TO SLIP SOUTHWARD...REACHING OUR NORTHERN WATERS OVERNIGHT. E/SE FLOW AROUND 10 KNOTS EXCEPT 10-15 KNOTS NEAR THE COAST BEHIND THE SEA BREEZE SOUTH OF THE CAPE. A BIT OF A NOCTURNAL WIND SURGE TONIGHT MAY INCREASE S/SE FLOW NEAR 15 KNOTS OFFSHORE. SEAS 3-4 FEET WITH DOMINANT PERIODS NEAR 8 SEC. && .MLB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. && MOSES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MELBOURNE FL 558 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 AMZ550-552-555-570-572-575-FLZ041-044>047-053-054-058-059-064-141- 144-147-251600- COASTAL WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET TO JUPITER INLET OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM FLAGLER BEACH TO VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM VOLUSIA BREVARD COUNTY LINE TO SEBASTIAN INLET 20 TO 60 NM OFFSHORE- WATERS FROM SEBASTIAN INLET 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- 558 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. .THUNDERSTORM IMPACT... THE EAST COAST SEA BREEZE WILL DEVELOP BY LATE MORNING AND PUSH TO THE INTERIOR THIS AFTERNOON. SCATTERED STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER THE INTERIOR AS THE SEA BREEZE INTERACTS WITH THE LARGER LAKE BREEZES AND TEMPERATURES REACHING THE LOWER TO MID 90S. HOWEVER...DRIER AIR ALOFT WILL PRODUCE A BELOW NORMAL COVERAGE OF STORMS ACROSS MOST OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA. A COLLISION WITH THE WEST COAST SEA BREEZE IS EXPECTED THIS EVENING JUST WEST OF LAKE COUNTY BETWEEN 7 AND 9 PM WHICH SHOULD PRODUCE A BAND OF LIGHTNING STORMS...ONE OR TWO OF WHICH COULD BE STRONG. THESE STORMS MAY DRIFT EAST INTO LAKE COUNTY BEFORE DIMINISHING. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM STORMS TODAY WILL BE DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY DOWNBURST WINDS UP TO 50 MPH. .RIP CURRENT IMPACT... AN EASTERLY SWELL WILL PRODUCE A MODERATE THREAT FOR RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF EAST CENTRAL FLORIDA TODAY. ALWAYS SWIM WITHIN SIGHT OF A LIFEGUARD. .MARINE THUNDERSTORM GUST IMPACT... ONE OR TWO LIGHTNING STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 KNOTS OVER THE INTERIOR WHICH COULD AFFECT ONE OR MORE LARGER INLAND LAKES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SEA BREEZE COLLISION THIS EVENING. STORM MOTION WILL BE SLOW AND ERRATIC...GENERALLY TOWARD THE NORTHWEST OR NORTH AT 10 MPH OR LESS BUT SOME PUSH TO THE EAST MAY OCCUR THIS EVENING FOLLOWING THE SEA BREEZE COLLISION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LOW LEVEL FLOW IS FORECAST TO TURN MORE SOUTHERLY THIS WEEK WHICH WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED AFTERNOON LIGHTNING STORMS OVER THE INTERIOR. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PUSH BACK TO THE EAST COAST AND OFFSHORE LATE THIS WEEK AND THIS WEEKEND. THE PRIMARY THREATS WILL BE FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY. KELLY
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 23-year old male tourist in the surf zone about 100 feet offshore Cape Canaveral appeared to be in distress and was not able to swim. Lifeguards observed rip currents where the man was last seen. The body was recovered nearby about two hours later. An autopsy indicated the man had drowned.
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 | 2013-06-25 | 23 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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