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Rip Current Statement 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 15, 2014Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 15, 2014, 10:41 AM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2014, 10:41 AM CDT (15:41 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 2014, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Bay County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:41 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 173 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 461 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

150 
WHUS42 KTAE 151541
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1141 AM EDT THU MAY 15 2014

...THERE IS A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG BAY COUNTY BEACHES
TODAY... 

MODERATE AND BREEZY WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST TODAY
BEHIND A STRONG COLD FRONT. ALTHOUGH WINDS WILL PARALLEL THE
PANHANDLE COASTLINE...SURF HEIGHTS WILL REMAIN ELEVATED IN THE 2
TO 4 FOOT RANGE WHICH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS ALONG BAY COUNTY.

FLZ112-160800-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0042.140515T1541Z-140516T0800Z/
COASTAL BAY-
1041 AM CDT THU MAY 15 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. 

* BEACH FLAGS...RED.

* SURF...2 TO 4 FEET.

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...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE
FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT
TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN
BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY.

&&

$$

HARRIGAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	3 hr
May 14, 8:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		118 min
May 14, 9:31 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		33 hr
May 15, 6:04 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor	3 hr
May 15, 4:06 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Dixie, Taylor	6 days

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.