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Rip Current Statement 37, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 3, 2013Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 3, 2013, 4:29 PM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 3, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 2013, 4:29 PM EDT (20:29 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 3, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 4, 2013, 12:59 AM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 9 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.

876 
WHUS42 KTAE 032029
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
429 PM EDT THU OCT 3 2013

...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING 
FOR COASTAL FRANKLIN COUNTY...

.LARGE LONG PERIOD SWELLS ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL STORM KAREN
WILL BEGIN TO MOVE NORTHWARD TONIGHT AND INCREASE THROUGH THE
WEEKEND AS KAREN APPROACHES. THIS WILL GENERATE INCREASING HIGH 
RIP CURRENTS.

FLZ115-042030-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0037.131004T0000Z-131007T0000Z/
COASTAL FRANKLIN-
429 PM EDT THU OCT 3 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING
THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING
THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. 

* WAVES AND SURF...2 TO 3 FEET INCREASING TO 3 TO 5 FEET. 

* TIMING...BEGINNING THIS EVENING AND INCREASING INTO THE WEEKEND.

* IMPACTS...WIND AND SURF CONDITIONS SUPPORT DANGEROUS RIP
  CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE
  ENTERING THE WATER.

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. 

&&

$$

BLOCK

1 follow-up statement

125 
WHUS42 KTAE 040459
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1259 AM EDT FRI OCT 4 2013


FLZ115-040600-
/O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0037.000000T0000Z-131007T0000Z/
COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1259 AM EDT FRI OCT 4 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT FRANKLIN COUNTY BEACHES REMAINS HIGH.
HOWEVER...WITH THE APPROACH OF TROPICAL STORM KAREN...RIP CURRENT
INFORMATION CAN NOW BE FOUND WITHIN THE TROPICAL STORM KAREN
LOCAL STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE. 



$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 3, 9:17 AM EDT	Hurricane Watch	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	9 hr
Oct 3, 11:59 AM EDT	Hurricane Local Statement	TAE	Dixie, Franklin, Jefferson, Taylor, Wakulla	53 hr
Oct 3, 5:52 PM EDT	Tropical Storm Watch	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Walton	47 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2013 Every rip current statement in 2013

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.