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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 9, 2014, 9:57 AM CDT for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2014, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2014, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 1066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
931 WHUS42 KTAE 091457 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1057 AM EDT WED APR 9 2014 ...THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF BAY AND GULF COUNTIES TODAY AND A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ELSEWHERE AFTER 6 AM EDT /5 AM CDT/... .A FAIRLY STRONG NORTHWEST WIND THIS MORNING IS STILL EXPECTED FAVOR A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BAY AND GULF COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THE DAY. ALTHOUGH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE LATER IN THE DAY...THE RIP CURRENT RISK MAY REMAIN HIGH INTO THE FIRST PART OF TONIGHT. FLZ108-092300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0023.140409T1457Z-140410T0600Z/ SOUTH WALTON- 957 AM CDT WED APR 9 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * LOCATION...WALTON COUNTY * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF TONIGHT * BEACH FLAGS...RED * SURF...3 FEET 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. && $$ FLZ112-114-092300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0022.000000T0000Z-140410T0600Z/ COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 1057 AM EDT WED APR 9 2014 /957 AM CDT WED APR 9 2014/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * LOCATION...THE BEACHES OF BAY AND GULF COUNTIES. * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH THE FIRST HALF OF TONIGHT. * SURF...3 TO 5 FEET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT... DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
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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.