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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 21, 2011, 7:19 PM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 21, 2011, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 22, 2011, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 478 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
243 WHUS42 KTAE 220119 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 819 PM EST WED DEC 21 2011 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST THURSDAY... FLZ108-112-220900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0020.111222T0119Z-111222T0900Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 719 PM CST WED DEC 21 2011 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST THURSDAY. * WAVES AND SURF...3 TO 5 FEET * IMPACTS...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ 18-WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 21, 11:17 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 21, 11:17 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Dec 22, 4:46 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 119 min | |
| Dec 22, 5:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 50 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 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.