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Rip Current Statement 79, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 3, 2014Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 3, 2014, 10:02 AM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 4, 2014, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 3, 2014, 10:02 AM EST (15:02 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 4, 2014, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 3, 2014, 7:46 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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.

723 
WHUS42 KTAE 031502
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1002 AM EST MON NOV 3 2014


FLZ114-115-032315-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0079.141104T1500Z-141104T2300Z/
COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1002 AM EST MON NOV 3 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
TUESDAY AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 

* LOCATION...BEACHES OF ST GEORGE ISLAND AND GULF COUNTY

* TIMING...TODAY

* BEACH FLAGS...RED

* SURF...2 TO 3 FEET

* IMPACTS...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS

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

219 
WHUS42 KTAE 040046
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
746 PM EST MON NOV 3 2014


FLZ114-115-040200-
/O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0079.141104T1500Z-141104T2300Z/
COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
746 PM EST MON NOV 3 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 3, 4:30 AM EST	Red Flag Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 8 more	14 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.