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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 13, 2014, 3:46 PM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2014, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
269 WHUS42 KTBW 131946 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 346 PM EDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...INCREASING RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ON TUESDAY... .INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING ENHANCED WAVE ENERGY TO OUR BEACHES ON TUESDAY. FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-141000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0028.141014T1000Z-141015T0000Z/ PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA- COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE- 346 PM EDT MON OCT 13 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. * TIMING...ALL DAY TUESDAY. * IMPACTS...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES. RIP CURRENTS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND CAN PULL EVEN THE STRONGEST SWIMMERS OUT INTO DEEPER WATER. 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...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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
1 follow-up statement
743 WHUS42 KTBW 140842 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 442 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014 ...INCREASING RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ON TUESDAY... .INCREASING SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL BRING ENHANCED WAVE ENERGY TO AREA BEACHES T0DAY. FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-150000- /O.CON.KTBW.RP.S.0028.141014T1000Z-141015T0000Z/ PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA- COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE- 442 AM EDT TUE OCT 14 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...ALL DAY TODAY. * IMPACTS...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES. RIP CURRENTS ARE VERY DANGEROUS AND CAN PULL EVEN THE STRONGEST SWIMMERS OUT INTO DEEPER WATER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
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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.