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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 21, 2014, 1:07 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 21, 2014, 10:00 AM CST. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2014, 1:07 AM CST (07:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 21, 2014, 10:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2014, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:10 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 363 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
- 1870 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
691 WHUS42 KTAE 210707 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 207 AM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY FOR BAY AND GULF COUNTY BEACHES... FLZ112-114-221200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0003.140121T1600Z-140122T1200Z/ COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 207 AM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 /107 AM CST TUE JAN 21 2014/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM EST /10 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. * SURF...3 TO 5 FEET * WIND...WEST TO NORTHWEST AROUND 20 MPH. 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. && $$ CAMP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 6:14 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 91 min | |
| Jan 21, 12:48 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 20 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:58 PM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | TAE | Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 5 more | 24 hr |
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.