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Rip Current in Brevard, Florida

Rip Current May 19, 2021 · Brevard, Florida

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What the National Weather Service wrote

A 50-year old man from Michigan went missing after being caught in a rip current and rough surf while swimming near Cherie Down Park in Cape Canaveral. The search was called off the following day and man was presumed drowned. Near the time the man went missing, his nephew was rescued from the water by a surfer.

The wider storm

A man swimming at a Cape Canaveral beach went missing during a period of strong rip currents and rough surf. Brevard County Ocean Rescue presumed the man drowned due to a rip current.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 950578. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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