Moderate northeast winds and swells along the Palm Beach County coast in the wake of a cold front led to rip currents at the county beaches.
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Moderate northeast winds and swells along the Palm Beach County coast in the wake of a cold front led to rip currents at the county beaches.
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 Oct 5, 12:46 PM EST, 4 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 146 PM EDT SUN OCT 5 2014 .AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS PREVAIL...FEW/SCT DIURNAL CU WITH OCSNL CI. WINDS MAINLY JUST EAST OF DUE NORTH THROUGH EARLY EVENING AT 10 KTS...DIMINISHING LATE THIS EVENING TO NEARLY CALM. BY MID-MORNING MONDAY...NNE WINDS OF 5-10 KTS WILL DEVELOP. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 1006 AM EDT SUN OCT 5 2014/ UPDATE... A MUCH DRIER AIR MASS CONTINUES TO FILTER INTO SOUTH FLORIDA THIS MORNING IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT CURRENTLY DRAPED ACROSS THE FLORIDA STRAITS. EXPECT ONLY A FEW PASSING HIGH CLOUDS THROUGH THE DAY AND VERY PLEASANT CONDITIONS. TWEAKED SKY AND POP GRIDS SLIGHTLY. OTHERWISE...ONGOING FORECAST IS IN GOOD SHAPE. PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 338 AM EDT SUN OCT 5 2014/ SHORT TERM (TODAY-TUESDAY)... TROUGH WILL REMAIN OVER THE EASTERN STATES THROUGH MONDAY KEEPING SOUTH FLORIDA DRY. ON TUESDAY, THERE IS A WEAK DISTURBANCE ROTATING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE TROUGH AND THIS WILL MOVE ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA WHICH IN TURN WILL ALLOW THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY TO MOVE BACK TO THE NORTH. THIS WILL INCREASE MOISTURE OVER THE REGION WITH PWAT CLIMBING BACK TO NEAR 1.5 INCHES AND DEW POINTS BACK INTO THE LOWER 70S. MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES WILL REMAIN RATHER MEAGER AND ALTHOUGH THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE IN A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS, IT APPEARS THE THREAT FOR THUNDER WILL BE LOW. THE BEST CHANCES FOR SHOWER ACTIVITY WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF THE AREA AND HAVE REFLECTED THIS IN THE POPS. LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY)... IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD, THE TROUGH WILL LIFT TO THE NORTHEAST WITH A MID/UPPER LEVEL RIDGE BUILDING ACROSS SOUTH FLORIDA ALONG THE A SURFACE RIDGE OVER THE SOUTHEAST STATES. THIS WILL RETURN A DEEP EASTERLY FLOW TO OUR AREA WITH QUICK MOVING SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS SO RAINFALL AMOUNTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE TOO HIGH ALTHOUGH AS IS ALWAYS THE CASE HIGHER AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY STORM THAT COULD DEVELOP. MARINE... A NORTHWEST WIND EARLY THIS MORNING WILL SLOWLY VEER TO THE NORTH BY EARLY AFTERNOON BECOMING NORTHEAST TONIGHT. AS THIS OCCURS, SEAS OVER THE GULF STREAM WILL BUILD TO AROUND 6 FEET AND THEN SLOWLY SUBSIDE TONIGHT AS THE WIND DIMINISHES AND VEER MORE TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. DUE TO THE BUILDING SEAS THIS MORNING, THERE WILL BE A SCEC STATEMENT FOR ALL WATERS EXCEPT BISCAYNE BAY. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... WEST PALM BEACH 70 84 74 85 / 0 10 0 20 FORT LAUDERDALE 71 84 76 85 / 10 10 10 20 MIAMI 71 84 76 85 / 0 10 10 30 NAPLES 66 84 73 86 / 0 10 10 20 && .MFL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FL...NONE. AM...NONE. GM...NONE. && SHORT TERM...10/CD LONG TERM....30/KOB AVIATION...23/SK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH FLORIDA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MIAMI FL 407 AM EDT SUN OCT 5 2014 AMZ610-630-650-651-670-671-FLZ063-066>075-168-172>174-GMZ656-657-676- 060000- LAKE OKEECHOBEE-BISCAYNE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM JUPITER INLET TO DEERFIELD BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DEERFIELD BEACH TO OCEAN REEF, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 NM TO THE TERRITORIAL WATERS OF THE BAHAMAS-GLADES-HENDRY- INLAND PALM BEACH-METRO PALM BEACH-COASTAL COLLIER-INLAND COLLIER- INLAND BROWARD-METRO BROWARD-INLAND MIAMI DADE-METRO MIAMI DADE- MAINLAND MONROE-COASTAL PALM BEACH-COASTAL BROWARD- COASTAL MIAMI DADE-FAR SOUTH MIAMI DADE- COASTAL WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM EAST CAPE SABLE TO CHOKOLOSKEE, FL OUT 20 NM- GULF WATERS FROM CHOKOLOSKEE TO BONITA BEACH, FL EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 407 AM EDT SUN OCT 5 2014 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS PALM BEACH COUNTY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT RIP CURRENTS: NORTH-NORTHEAST WINDS NEAR 15 MPH AND A GRADUALLY INCREASING NORTHEAST SWELL WILL LEAD TO A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. FARTHER SOUTH, THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE BROWARD AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BEACHES. NO OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE RIP CURRENT RISK WILL PERSIST ALONG THE ATLANTIC BEACHES FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK DUE TO NORTHEAST TO EAST WINDS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. ASTRONOMICAL TIDES WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, PEAKING AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE YEAR ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. THIS WILL LIKELY LEAD TO MINOR TIDAL FLOODING NEAR THE TIMES OF HIGH TIDE IN THE TYPICALLY VULNERABLE AREAS, MAINLY ADJACENT TO THE INTRACOASTAL BAYS AND INLETS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. FOR MORE INFORMATION...VISIT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MIAMI WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MIAMI. MOLLEDA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A man nearly drowned from apparent rip currents at the Boynton Inlet. Fire rescue crews responded to a call of a reported drowning, and found a man breathing and conscious.
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