Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2011
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 10, 2011, 2:27 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2011, 2:27 AM CST (08:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2011, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
083 WHUS42 KTAE 100827 CFWTAE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 327 AM EST MON JAN 10 2011 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY FOR WALTON COUNTY... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY FOR THE BEACHES OF THE FLORIDA BIG BEND AND EASTERN PANHANDLE... FLZ108-101800- /O.NEW.KTAE.SU.Y.0001.110110T0827Z-110110T1800Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0002.110110T0827Z-110110T1800Z/ SOUTH WALTON- 227 AM CST MON JAN 10 2011 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH SURF ADVISORY AS SURF HEIGHTS WILL AVERAGE AROUND 6 FEET THIS MORNING. SURF OF THIS MAGNITUDE IS TYPICALLY ASSOCIATE WITH A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS. A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL PASS SOUTH OF THE REGION TODAY AND BRIEFLY KICK UP THE SURF ACROSS AREA BEACHES. WINDS WILL QUICKLY SHIFT TO OFFSHORE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WAKE OF THE LOW AND THIS WILL WORK TO LAY DOWN THE SURF. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION. && $$ FLZ112-114-115-101800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0002.110110T0827Z-110110T1800Z/ COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 327 AM EST MON JAN 10 2011 /227 AM CST MON JAN 10 2011/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... A LOW PRESSURE CENTER WILL PASS SOUTH OF THE REGION TODAY AND BRIEFLY KICK UP THE SURF ACROSS AREA BEACHES. THIS WILL PRODUCE AN ELEVATED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS. WINDS WILL QUICKLY SHIFT TO OFFSHORE AND DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON IN THE WAKE OF THE LOW AND THIS WILL WORK TO LAY DOWN THE SURF. $$ 18-WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2:27 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | TAE | Walton | 10 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:38 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 14 hr | |
| Jan 10, 1:28 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 38 hr |
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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.