Rip Current — Coastal Palm Beach County, Florida
March 6, 2022 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
1
Direct injuries
0
Property damage
—
Area
Coastal Palm Beach County
Event narrative (NOAA)
A 64-year-old male visiting from outside the area drowned from a rip current at the 400 block of South Ocean Boulevard in the Town of Palm Beach. Fire-Rescue arrived on-scene at 7:43 AM to a call of an unresponsive man lying on the beach shoreline. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 8:20 AM.||This section of the beach is guarded during operating hours, but the drowning occurred before lifeguards arrived for normal duty.
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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.