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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 13, 2014, 9:16 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2014, 9:16 AM CDT (14:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2014, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Gulf County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -312 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
912 WHUS42 KTAE 131416 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1016 AM EDT THU MAR 13 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... .LEFTOVER WAVES GENERATED FROM THE STRONG WINDS ON WEDNESDAY WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY. CONDITIONS MAY IMPROVE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AS THE SURF SUBSIDES. FLZ114-132300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.140313T1416Z-140313T2300Z/ COASTAL GULF- 1016 AM EDT THU MAR 13 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...GULF COUNTY BEACHES * BEACH FLAGS...RED * SURF...2 TO 3 FEET...SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 2 FEET. * IMPACTS...STRONG 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 9:01 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 10 hr | |
| Mar 13, 1:20 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | TAE | Dixie, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Madison and 2 more | 18 hr |
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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.