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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 13, 2013Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 13, 2013, 4:37 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2013, 4:37 AM CDT (09:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

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

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 3149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1335 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 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.

318 
WHUS42 KTAE 130937
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
537 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013

...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG PANHANDLE BEACHES
TODAY...

.MODEST ONSHORE WINDS WILL GENERATE SURF BETWEEN 2 TO 3
FEET...WITH HIGHER SETS THIS AFTERNOON.

FLZ108-112-114-140600-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0023.130613T0937Z-130614T0600Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-
537 AM EDT THU JUN 13 2013 /437 AM CDT THU JUN 13 2013/

...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS IN EFFECT...

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

* WAVES AND SURF...2 TO 3 FEET WITH HIGHER SETS POSSIBLE.


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 SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE UNTIL YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE
OF THE RIP CURRENT.

&&

$$

HARRIGAN/NAVARRO

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	32 min
Jun 13, 2:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	26 min

Nearby

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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.