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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 13, 2013, 1:54 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 13, 2013, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2013, 1:54 AM CST (07:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 13, 2013, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2013, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 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 07:54 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, 7.9 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
- 474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
241 WHUS42 KTAE 130754 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 254 AM EST WED FEB 13 2013 ...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON FOR SOUTH WALTON...COASTAL BAY AND COASTAL GULF COUNTIES... .A STRONG LOW PRESSURE WILL LIFT NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN GULF TODAY LIFTING A WARM FRONT ACROSS THE LOCAL AREA FOLLOWED BY A TRAILING COLD FRONT THROUGH THIS EVENING. MODERATE TO BREEZY WEST WINDS WITH HIGHER GUSTS WILL HELP SURF BUILD ALONG PANHANDLE BEACHES WHICH INCREASES THE RISK FOR RIP CURRENT. AS THE FRONT EXITS EAST OF THESE AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON...WINDS WILL SHIFT TO OFFSHORE WITH SURF HEIGHTS AND THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS DECREASING. FLZ108-112-114-132100- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0005.130213T1200Z-130213T2100Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 254 AM EST WED FEB 13 2013 /154 AM CST WED FEB 13 2013/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * SURF...3 TO 4 FEET WITH A FEW SPOTS 4 TO 5 FEET EARLY ESPECIALLY WALTON COUNTY. * TIMING...HIGHEST SURF WILL BE IN THE MORNING INTO EARLY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...BUILDING SURF WILL INCREASE THE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TO A HIGH LEVEL. 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
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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.