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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 29, 2010Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia; Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 29, 2010, 4:27 AM EDT for Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia; Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It was in force for 26 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 29, 2010, 4:27 AM EDT (08:27 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2010, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 26 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 16 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

533 
WHUS42 KJAX 290827
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
427 AM EDT WED SEP 29 2010

FLZ024-025-033-038-GAZ154-166-301000-
/O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0007.100929T0827Z-100930T1000Z/
NASSAU-DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL GLYNN-COASTAL CAMDEN-
427 AM EDT WED SEP 29 2010

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BECOME NORTHEAST AND INCREASE TO 20 TO 25
KNOTS THIS AFTERNOON WITH SEAS OF 4 TO 6 FEET NEAR SHORE. THESE
STRONG WINDS AND SEAS WILL PRODUCE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS
INTO TONIGHT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...
JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH
PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE
FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG
SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. 

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD:

 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM

&&

$$

PP

1 follow-up statement

239 
WHUS42 KJAX 301011
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
611 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010

FLZ024-025-033-038-GAZ154-166-301115-
/O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-100930T1000Z/
NASSAU-DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL GLYNN-COASTAL CAMDEN-
611 AM EDT THU SEP 30 2010

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY.

$$

PP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley, Camden	57 min
Sep 29, 12:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Brantley	45 min
Sep 29, 12:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JAX	Wayne	46 min
Sep 29, 4:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Appling, Bacon, Coffee, Jeff Davis	83 min
Sep 29, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Columbia, Gilchrist, Suwannee	82 min
Sep 29, 7:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JAX	Alachua	60 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Georgia, 2010 Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2010 Every rip current statement in 2010

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.