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Rip Current Statement 39, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 31, 2013, 1:05 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 31, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 31, 2013, 1:05 AM CDT (06:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 31, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Nov 1, 2013, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 06:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
050 WHUS42 KTAE 310605 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 205 AM EDT THU OCT 31 2013 ...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND FRIDAY ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BEACHES... .INCREASING ONSHORE WINDS AND SURF WILL LEAD TO STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND FRIDAY FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE BEACHES. FLZ108-112-114-011200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0039.131031T1200Z-131102T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 205 AM EDT THU OCT 31 2013 /105 AM CDT THU OCT 31 2013/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. * SURF...3 TO 4 FEET TODAY. 4 TO 5 FEET FRIDAY. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
373 WHUS42 KTAE 011020 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 620 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE BEACHES... .INCREASING ONSHORE WINDS AND HIGH SURF WILL CREATE STRONG AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND FRIDAY FOR FLORIDA PANHANDLE BEACHES. FLZ108-112-114-020000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-131102T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 620 AM EDT FRI NOV 1 2013 /520 AM CDT FRI NOV 1 2013/ ...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WINDS...SOUTHWEST AROUND 15 MPH AND GUSTY. * SURF...3 TO 5 FEET AT THE PANHANDLE BEACHES TODAY. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT... DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ 17-GOULD
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.