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Rip Current Statement 70, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 1, 2015Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 1, 2015, 10:56 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 2015, 10:56 AM EDT (14:56 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 292 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 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.

913 
WHUS42 KTAE 011456
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1056 AM EDT TUE SEP 1 2015

...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY AT FRANKLIN COUNTY BEACHES...

A GENERALLY WEAK SURFACE PRESSURE PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO KEEP
WINDS AROUND 10 MPH OR LESS...AND SURF HEIGHTS AROUND 1 TO 2 FEET.
SURF HEIGHTS SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY HIGHER ON WEDNESDAY THAN
TUESDAY...ALONG WITH A POSSIBLE INCREASE IN WAVE PERIODS. THE
LONGER PERIOD WAVES MAY ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO AN INCREASE IN THE RIP
CURRENT RISK ON WEDNESDAY. BE SURE TO CONSULT THE RIP CURRENT RISK
AT YOUR LOCAL BEACH WITH THE FLAG SYSTEM OR WITH THE BEACH PATROL.

FLZ115-020400-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0070.150901T1500Z-150902T0400Z/
COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1056 AM EDT TUE SEP 1 2015

...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. 

* TIMING...UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

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...BEACH PATROL
FLAGS AND SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN
CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR
HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO
SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. 

&&

$$

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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.