Rip Current in Coastal Broward County, Florida

Rip Current May 27, 2013 · Coastal Broward County, Florida

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A fifteen-year-old boy drowned at John U. Lloyd State Park due to rip currents. The beach was unguarded but red rip current warning flags were posted at the entrance to the park.

The wider storm

A strong ridge of high pressure over the southeastern states resulted in breezy onshore winds along the southeast coast of the Florida peninsula with strong rip currents.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 454104. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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