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Rip Current Statement 40, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 13, 2014Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 13, 2014, 9:36 AM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2014, 9:36 AM CDT (14:36 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2014, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 800 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

908 
WHUS42 KTAE 131436
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1036 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014

...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG
WALTON...BAY...AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON...

..MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS AND MODERATE SURF HAVE COMBINED TO
INCREASE THE RIP CURRENT RISK TO HIGH ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE
BEACHES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING.

FLZ108-112-115-132245-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0040.140513T1436Z-140514T0000Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1036 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 /936 AM CDT TUE MAY 13 2014/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING. 

* LOCATION...FLORIDA PANHANDLE BEACHES

* TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING

* BEACH FLAGS...RED

* SURF...2 TO 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. 

&&

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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.