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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 12, 2014, 2:16 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 12, 2014, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2014, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2014, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 1308 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269 WHUS42 KTAE 120816 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 316 AM EST WED FEB 12 2014 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENT AT PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-112-114-115-131200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0004.140212T1200Z-140213T1200Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 316 AM EST WED FEB 12 2014 /216 AM CST WED FEB 12 2014/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... 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 THURSDAY MORNING. * SURF...3 TO 4 FEET. * WIND...SOUTH AROUND 15 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
575 WHUS42 KTAE 130755 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 255 AM EST THU FEB 13 2014 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENT AT GULF AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-115-130900- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-140213T1200Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 255 AM EST THU FEB 13 2014 /155 AM CST THU FEB 13 2014/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. && $$ FLZ112-114-140000- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-140214T0000Z/ COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 255 AM EST THU FEB 13 2014 /155 AM CST THU FEB 13 2014/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * SURF...3 TO 4 FEET. * WIND...NORTHWEST AROUND 15 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:21 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 34 hr | |
| Feb 12, 5:19 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Feb 12, 6:43 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 92 min | |
| Feb 12, 8:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 115 min |
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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.