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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 28, 2015, 4:20 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Mar 28, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2015, 4:20 AM EDT (08:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2015, 10:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 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 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
645 WHUS42 KTBW 280820 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 420 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... .ROBUST NORTHWESTERLY WINDS ON THE GULF TODAY WILL KEEP SEAS AND WAVES ELEVATED WITH A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-290100- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0012.150328T1400Z-150329T0100Z/ PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA- COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE- 420 AM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES. 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. && $$ HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA
1 follow-up statement
741 WHUS42 KTBW 290116 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL 916 PM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-290230- /O.EXP.KTBW.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-150329T0100Z/ PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA- COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE- 916 PM EDT SAT MAR 28 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... THE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS HAS DECREASED THIS EVENING. $$ 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.