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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 18, 2013Bay County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 18, 2013, 1:23 AM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 18, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2013, 1:23 AM CDT (06:23 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 18, 2013, 5:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 18, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 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.

098 
WHUS42 KTAE 180623
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
223 AM EDT THU APR 18 2013

...INCREASING AND STRONG RIP CURRENT ACTIVITY EXPECTED TODAY
ALONG THE BEACHES OF WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES...

.STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 15 MPH OR SO WILL COMBINE WITH
BUILDING SEAS AND SURF TO CONTRIBUTE TO MORE FREQUENT AND STRONGER
RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG A SECTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE
BEACHES. THIS INCLUDES BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES IN OUR AREA.

FLZ108-112-190000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0014.130418T1000Z-130419T0000Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-
123 AM CDT THU APR 18 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS
MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 AM CDT EARLY THIS
MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* WAVES AND SURF: BREAKERS PEAKING AROUND 4 FEET TODAY.

* IMPACTS: RIP CURRENTS WILL POSE A DANGER TO ANYONE ENTERING THE
  WATER TODAY.

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. 

&&

$$

08-LAMERS

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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.