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The Dexes / Coastal Flood, High Surf & Storm Surge / 305032

Eventdex · Coastal Flood, High Surf & Storm Surge

COASTAL PALM BEACH COUNTY

305032

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Event typeevent_typeRip Current
NOAA NCEI event IDncei_event_id305,032
Episode IDepisode_id51,370
Begin UTCbegin_utc2011-04-24T16:00:00+00:00
End UTCend_utc2011-04-24T16:00:00+00:00
StatestateFLORIDA
County/zone typecz_typeZ
County/zone namecz_nameCOASTAL PALM BEACH COUNTY
Deaths directdeaths_direct1
Deaths indirectdeaths_indirect0
Injuries directinjuries_direct1
Injuries indirectinjuries_indirect0
Damage propertydamage_property0.00K
Damage cropsdamage_crops0.00K
Weather forecast office sourcewfo_sourceNewspaper
Episode narrativeepisode_narrativeAtlantic high pressure provided for moderate to strong east winds along the southeast Florida coast, leading to the development of rip currents along the Atlantic beaches.
Event narrativeevent_narrativeA 78-year-old male Canadian tourist drowned as a result of rip currents at an unguarded beach in the 3100 Block of South Ocean Boulevard in Boca Raton, very close to the Palm Beach/Broward county line. The man was swimming with his girlfriend when she went out too far and got caught in a rip current. He rescued the woman, but had to be taken to the hospital and died the following evening. ||The woman made it to shore and was hospitalized with a minor heart attack.
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