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Rip Current Statement 66, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 2, 2014Bay County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 2, 2014, 10:37 AM CDT for Bay County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 2, 2014, 10:37 AM CDT (15:37 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2014, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 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: 522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 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.

902 
WHUS42 KTAE 021537
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1137 AM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014

...A RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY FOR BAY COUNTY BEACHES...

WINDS WILL BE MAINLY ONSHORE THIS AFTERNOON PARTICULARLY AT
WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES WHERE WAVES COULD REACH 2 FEET AT
LOCAL BEACHES. GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTY BEACHES WILL HAVE LIGHTER
WINDS AND SMALLER WAVES. STRONG RIP CURRENTS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY.
BAY COUNTY HAS A HIGH RISK TODAY AND OTHER LOCAL BEACHES HAVE A
MODERATE RISK.

FLZ112-030400-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0066.140902T1537Z-140903T0400Z/
COASTAL BAY-
1037 AM CDT TUE SEP 2 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* LOCATION...BAY COUNTY BEACHES

* TIMING...UNTIL MIDNIGHT

* 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. 

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 6:44 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		91 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.