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Rip Current Statement 86, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 25, 2014Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 25, 2014, 9:25 AM CST for Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 25, 2014, 9:25 AM CST (15:25 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 2014, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 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.

315 
WHUS42 KTAE 251525
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1025 AM EST TUE NOV 25 2014

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY...



FLZ112-114-115-260000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0086.141125T1525Z-141126T0000Z/
COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1025 AM EST TUE NOV 25 2014 /925 AM CST TUE NOV 25 2014/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS
EVENING. 

* LOCATION...COASTAL BAY...GULF AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES

* TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT

* BEACH FLAGS...BAY AND FRANKLIN...RED...GULF...DOUBLE RED

* SURF...2 TO 4 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
Nov 25, 2:26 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.