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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 16, 2013, 1:54 AM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 16, 2013, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2013, 1:54 AM CST (07:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2013, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2013, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Gulf County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 2444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
549 WHUS42 KTAE 160754 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 254 AM EST SAT FEB 16 2013 ...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR WEST FACING GULF COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... .STRONG WEST NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE WAKE OF AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL GENERATE VICTORY AT SEA CONDITIONS FOR EXPOSED WEST FACING BEACHES ALONG GULF COUNTY. THE EXTREMELY MESSY CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY GENERATE STRONG...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY. OVERNIGHT...WINDS WILL TURN MORE NORTHERLY AND BEACH CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY CALM. FLZ114-170300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0006.130216T1500Z-130217T0300Z/ COASTAL GULF- 254 AM EST SAT FEB 16 2013 ...A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...FOR WEST FACING BEACHES ALONG GULF COUNTY. * WAVES AND SURF...AROUND 4 FEET WITH AN ISOLATED 5 FOOT BREAKER. VICTORY AT SEA CONDITIONS EXPECTED. * TIMING...MID-MORNING THROUGH SUNDOWN. * IMPACTS...LARGE POWERFUL SURF AND STRONG WINDS WILL CREATE LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ALONG GULF COUNTY BEACHES. 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. && $$ HARRIGAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:54 AM CST | Freeze Warning | TAE | Bay, Gulf, Walton | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:54 AM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:07 PM CST | Freeze Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 7 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:07 PM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | TAE | Dixie, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 23 hr |
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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.