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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 5, 2011, 2:45 AM EST for Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 5, 2011, 2:45 AM EST (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 16 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 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
566 WHUS42 KJAX 050745 CFWJAX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 245 AM EST MON DEC 5 2011 FLZ024-025-033-038-GAZ154-166-051545- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0013.111205T0745Z-111206T0000Z/ NASSAU-DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL GLYNN-COASTAL CAMDEN- 245 AM EST MON DEC 5 2011 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...PERSISTENT EAST SWELLS IN COMBINATION WITH MODERATE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW HAS CREATED ROUGH SURF AND WILL ENHANCE THE RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...BREAKERS TO AROUND 4 TO 6 FEET WILL MAKE THE SURF ZONE VERY DANGEROUS FOR ANY SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
2 follow-up statements
278 WHUS42 KJAX 051446 AAA CFWJAX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 946 AM EST MON DEC 5 2011 FLZ024-025-033-038-GAZ154-166-060000- /O.CON.KJAX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-111206T0000Z/ NASSAU-DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL GLYNN-COASTAL CAMDEN- 946 AM EST MON DEC 5 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * TIMING...LONG PERIOD EAST SWELLS IN COMBINATION WITH ONSHORE FLOW HAS CREATED ROUGH SURF AND WILL ENHANCE THE RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...BREAKERS TO AROUND 4 TO 6 FEET WILL MAKE THE SURF ZONE VERY DANGEROUS FOR ANY SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ 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
070 WHUS42 KJAX 060021 CFWJAX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL 721 PM EST MON DEC 5 2011 FLZ024-025-033-038-GAZ154-166-060130- /O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-111206T0000Z/ NASSAU-DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL GLYNN-COASTAL CAMDEN- 721 PM EST MON DEC 5 2011 ...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED FOR TODAY... $$ 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 10:00 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | JAX | 42 hr | |
| Dec 5, 5:26 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | JAX | Baker, Suwannee | 5 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2011Rip Current Statements in Georgia, 2011Every rip current statement in 2011
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.