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Rip Current Statement 31, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 20, 2013, 1:18 AM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2013, 1:18 AM CDT (06:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 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 06:20 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, 6.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1410 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 928 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
476 WHUS42 KTAE 200618 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 218 AM EDT TUE AUG 20 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... FLZ108-112-210000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0031.130820T0618Z-130821T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 118 AM CDT TUE AUG 20 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 FOR BAY AND WALTON COUNTIES. * SURF...AROUND 2 FEET. * IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS PRIMARILY DUE TO DEEP CHANNELS IN THE SURF ZONE THAT HAVE DEVELOPED IN PART DUE TO DUNE LAKE WASHOUTS IN WALTON COUNTY. SEVERAL RESCUES HAVE BEEN NECESSARY OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF DAYS IN BOTH COUNTIES. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 8:40 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Jackson | 80 min |
| Aug 19, 9:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Leon | 82 min |
| Aug 20, 2:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 3 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:05 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 17 days |
| Aug 20, 11:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton | 118 min |
| Aug 20, 12:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Walton | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 1:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Taylor | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 5:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 33 min |
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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.