Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 23, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT for Pinellas County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
County Pinellas County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
796 WHUS42 KTBW 231000 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 600 AM EDT WED OCT 23 2013 ...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES... .NORTHERLY WINDS AROUND 20 MPH WILL CREATE A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AT BEACHES ALONG THE WEST CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COAST. FLZ050-051-055-060-062-065-240000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0009.131023T1000Z-131024T0000Z/ PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-MANATEE-SARASOTA-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 600 AM EDT WED OCT 23 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM TODAY * IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS CAN PULL EVEN STRONG SWIMMERS OUT INTO DEEPER WATER. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPABAY
1 follow-up statement
329 WHUS42 KTBW 240006 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 806 PM EDT WED OCT 23 2013 FLZ050-051-055-060-062-065-240115- /O.EXP.KTBW.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-131024T0000Z/ PINELLAS-HILLSBOROUGH-MANATEE-SARASOTA-CHARLOTTE-LEE- 806 PM EDT WED OCT 23 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... NORTHERLY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO VEER TO THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT... THEREFORE THE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS HAS DIMINISHED. SWIMMERS ARE STILL ADVISED TO MAINTAIN AWARENESS OF BEACH CONDITIONS AND FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS OF LIFEGUARDS. $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 5:20 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.