Rip Current — Indian River, Florida
September 30, 2019 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
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Area
Indian River
Event narrative (NOAA)
Following a 9-1-1, police discovered bystanders giving CPR to a man on Vero Beach. |After being transported to a local hospital, the man later died due to drowning. The 25 year old man was from South Korea, but had been living in Vero Beach. A high threat of rip currents existed in the surf zone due to long period swells from distant Hurricane Lorenzo.
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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.