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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 7, 2012Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 7, 2012, 12:37 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 7, 2012, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2012, 12:37 AM CST (06:37 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 7, 2012, 6:00 AM CST
Expired: Mar 7, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

357 
WHUS42 KTAE 070637
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
137 AM EST WED MAR 7 2012

...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS
MORNING THROUGH 6 PM CST FOR THE BEACHES OF WALTON COUNTY IN
THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE...

.THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS ALONG WITH ELEVATED
SURF WILL GENERATE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. THE OVERALL
RIP CURRENT RISK WILL DECREASE TONIGHT...BUT WILL LIKELY REMAIN AT
MODERATE LEVELS THROUGH THE DAYLIGHT HOURS OF THURSDAY.

FLZ108-080000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0007.120307T1200Z-120308T0000Z/
SOUTH WALTON-
1237 AM CST WED MAR 7 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH
RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

* WAVES AND SURF...3 TO 5 FEET.

* TIMING...THROUGH THE AFTERNOON HOURS.

* IMPACTS...WIND AND SURF CONDITIONS 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. 

&&

$$

14-MROCZKA

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.