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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Jacksonville, FL

November 22, 2013Flagler County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 22, 2013, 4:18 AM EST for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 22, 2013, 4:18 AM EST (09:18 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 2013, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

County Flagler County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 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.

609 
WHUS42 KJAX 220918
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
418 AM EST FRI NOV 22 2013

FLZ025-033-038-222300-
/O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0012.131122T0918Z-131122T2300Z/
DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-
418 AM EST FRI NOV 22 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH
RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. 

* TIMING...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY.

* IMPACTS...ROUGH SURF WITH BREAKERS OF 4 TO 6 FEET WILL CREATE
  DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS. THESE CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING
  TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF.

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.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

721 
WHUS42 KJAX 222308
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
608 PM EST FRI NOV 22 2013

FLZ025-033-038-230015-
/O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-131122T2300Z/
DUVAL-ST JOHNS-FLAGLER-
608 PM EST FRI NOV 22 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

$$

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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.