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Rip Current Statement 27, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 2, 2012, 3:29 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2012, 3:29 AM CDT (08:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 2, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
- 1297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
218 WHUS42 KTAE 020829 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 429 AM EDT TUE OCT 2 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... .RESIDUAL WEST SOUTHWEST SWELLS BEHIND A COLD FRONT WILL MAINTAIN 3 TO 4 FOOT BREAKERS FOR A WHILE TODAY ALONG PORTIONS OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE COAST WITH WEST FACING BEACHES. THIS IS PRIMARILY IN GULF AND BAY COUNTIES. THE SURF AND RIP CURRENT RISK WILL SUBSIDE BY THIS EVENING. FLZ112-114-030000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0027.121002T0829Z-121003T0000Z/ COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 429 AM EDT TUE OCT 2 2012 /329 AM CDT TUE OCT 2 2012/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS FOR WEST FACING BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...WEST FACING BEACHES BETWEEN CAPE SAN BLAS AND PANAMA CITY BEACH. * SURF...3 TO 4 FEET SUBSIDING TO 2 TO 3 FEET. * TIMING...HIGHEST SURF AND RIP CURRENT RISK IN THE MORNING. 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. && $$ 18-WOOL
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.