Rip Current in Sarasota, Florida

Rip Current May 19, 2008 · Sarasota, Florida

Deaths

What the National Weather Service wrote

Two tourists from northern New York state were caught in a rip current and drowned off of the Longboat Key Public Beach.

The wider storm

Persistent west to southwesterly winds in place across the area caused a moderate to high risk for rip currents along West Central and Southwest Florida's beaches.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 88422. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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