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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 8, 2012Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 8, 2012, 1:34 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2012, 1:34 AM CST (07:34 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2012, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 8 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 07:37 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, 7.6 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: 1960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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.

578 
WHUS42 KTAE 080734
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
234 AM EST THU MAR 8 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING
ALONG THE BEACHES OF WALTON COUNTY...

.THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS AND ELEVATED SURF WILL
GENERATE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS MORNING. THE OVERALL RIP
CURRENT RISK WILL DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WILL LIKELY REMAIN AT
MODERATE LEVELS THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING.

FLZ108-081600-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.120308T0734Z-120308T1600Z/
SOUTH WALTON-
134 AM CST THU MAR 8 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RISK
FOR RIP CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING.

* WAVES AND SURF...3 TO 5 FEET SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 2 FEET.

* TIMING...HIGHEST THREAT THIS MORNING.

* IMPACTS...WIND AND SURF CONDITIONS WILL SUPPORT DANGEROUS RIP
  CURRENTS TODAY. MANY RIP CURRENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED ALL THIS
  WEEK ALONG AREA BEACHES. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE THREATENING TO
  ANYONE ENTERING THE WATER.

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
IF THIS IS ATTEMPTED.

&&

$$

18-WOOL

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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.