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Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 30, 2013Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 30, 2013, 9:22 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 30, 2013, 9:22 AM CDT (14:22 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 10 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 14:23 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 12:00Z, 2.4 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: 457 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 583 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -47 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.

731 
WHUS42 KTAE 301422
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1022 AM EDT THU MAY 30 2013

...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS
EVENING FOR SOUTH WALTON COUNTY...

.A PERSISTENT MODERATE SOUTHEASTERLY WIND FLOW WILL RESULT IN
STRONG LONGSHORE CURRENTS AND AN INCREASED DANGER OF RIP CURRENTS
ALONG PANHANDLE BEACHES...ESPECIALLY WALTON COUNTY...THROUGH THIS
EVENING. LOCAL BEACHGOERS INDICATE ELEVATED SURF ALONG PANHANDLE
BEACHES. 

FLZ108-310000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0018.130530T1422Z-130531T0000Z/
SOUTH WALTON-
922 AM CDT THU MAY 30 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* WAVES AND SURF...SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH AND GUSTY. SEAS 2 TO 4
  FEET WITH ISOLATED 4 TO 5 FEET.

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK FOR DEADLY RIP CURRENTS.

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. 

&&

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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.