Rip Current — Coastal Broward County, Florida
September 7, 2008 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
—
Area
Coastal Broward County
Event narrative (NOAA)
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.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.