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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 12, 2012, 2:38 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at May 12, 2012, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2012, 2:38 AM CDT (07:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 12, 2012, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
812 WHUS42 KTAE 120738 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 338 AM EDT SAT MAY 12 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING ALONG THE EASTERN PANHANDLE BEACHES... FLZ108-112-114-130000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0010.120512T1200Z-120513T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 338 AM EDT SAT MAY 12 2012 /238 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 2012/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * WAVES AND SURF...2 TO 4 FEET. * IMPACTS...WIND AND SURF CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE WATER. 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. && $$ DVD
Nearby
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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.