Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 21, 2012, 1:19 PM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2012, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2012, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 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 18:22 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 12:00Z, 6.3 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
- 540 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
535 WHUS42 KTAE 211819 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 219 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2012 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS REPORTED IN BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES... .BEACH SAFETY OFFICIALS HAVE REPORTED DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS AND NUMEROUS RESCUES ALONG THE BEACHES OF BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES SO FAR TODAY. THEREFORE...THE PREVIOUS MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A HIGH RISK FOR THE BEACHES ALONG WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES. PANAMA CITY BEACH WAS FLYING DOUBLE RED FLAGS AS OF 1 PM CDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON. FLZ108-112-220300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0017.120721T1819Z-120722T0300Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 119 PM CDT SAT JUL 21 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * SURF...BREAKERS OF 2 TO 3 FEET. * TIMING...WINDS SHOULD BECOME MORE EASTERLY AND DECREASE SLIGHTLY TONIGHT WHICH SHOULD ALLOW THE RIP CURRENT RISK TO DECREASE LATE THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL CREATE EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR ANYONE ENTERING THE WATER. BEACHGOERS ARE URGED TO FOLLOW THE ADVICE OF LOCAL BEACH PATROLS. 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. && $$ 08/17
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 3:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette | 23 min |
| Jul 21, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette | 31 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2012Every rip current statement in 2012
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.