Rip Current in Coastal Broward County, Florida

Rip Current September 7, 2008 · Coastal Broward County, Florida

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A 46-year-old man drowned while out for a swim in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

A guard at the Ocean Colony Condominiums had not seen the man for several minutes, and witnesses stated that the victim attempted to hold onto a buoy as he was pulled out. The man's body was later retrieved at the Commercial Boulevard Pier which is south of where the man first entered the water.

The wider storm

Increasing northeast winds along the Atlantic coast of South Florida lead to the formation of rip currents.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 134754. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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