Alert archive / Florida / Beach Hazards Statements in 2012
Beach Hazards Statement 3, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this beach hazards statement at Jun 4, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2012, 10:06 AM EDT (14:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2012, 3:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 246 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1300 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
024 WHUS42 KTBW 041406 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 1006 AM EDT MON JUN 4 2012 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... FLZ039-042-048>050-050000- /O.NEW.KTBW.BH.S.0003.120604T1406Z-120605T0000Z/ LEVY-CITRUS-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS- 1006 AM EDT MON JUN 4 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...TODAY INTO THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...PINELLAS COUNTY NORTHWARD TO LEVY COUNTY. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. RIP CURRENTS ARE A THREAT TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO AVOID GETTING CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...SWIM AT GUARDED BEACHES AND HEED THE ADVICE OF THE BEACH PATROL. AT UNGUARDED BEACHES AND NEAR PIERS...JETTIES...AND INLETS...DO NOT GO INTO THE SURF MUCH ABOVE YOUR KNEES. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN THE SEAWARD PULL OF A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC OR ATTEMPT TO MOVE DIRECTLY TOWARD SHORE. INSTEAD...MOVE SIDEWAYS ACROSS THE RIP CURRENT UNTIL THE PULL EASES. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS RIP CURRENTS...RED TIDE...OR WHEN OTHER LOCAL HAZARDS ARE POSSIBLE. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=CHMBHS && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
1 follow-up statement
257 WHUS42 KTBW 041920 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 320 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... ...LATEST BEACH REPORTS FROM THE SUNCOAST DO NOT INDICATE MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS AFTERNOON. FLZ039-042-048>050-042030- /O.CAN.KTBW.BH.S.0003.000000T0000Z-120605T0000Z/ LEVY-CITRUS-HERNANDO-PASCO-PINELLAS- 320 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2012 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
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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.