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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 31, 20134 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 31, 2013, 2:12 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2013, 2:12 AM CDT (07:12 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:18 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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.

952 
WHUS42 KTAE 310712
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
312 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013

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

.MODERATE EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS OVER THE PAST FEW 
DAYS WILL CONTINUE TODAY...THEN GRADUALLY DIMINISH ON SATURDAY.
THIS PERSISTENT WIND PATTERN HAS RESULTED IN UNUSUALLY ROUGH SURF
FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR...AS WELL AS FREQUENT DANGEROUS RIP
CURRENTS. THERE WERE REPORTS OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND EVEN RIP
CURRENT RESCUES THURSDAY...SO THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALSO REMAINS
HIGH.

FLZ108-112-114-115-010300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0019.130531T0712Z-130601T0300Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
312 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013 /212 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013/

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

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

* SURF...2 TO 4 FEET...WITH OCCASIONAL 5 FEET SETS POSSIBLE AT THE
  WALTON COUNTY BEACHES.

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* IMPACTS...THE COMBINATION OF WIND AND ROUGH SURF WILL CREATE
  FREQUENT...STRONG RIP CURRENTS TODAY. THESE STRONG CURRENTS ARE
  VERY HAZARDOUS TO SWIMMERS. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE. 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.