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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

February 10, 20156 counties in Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 10, 2015, 3:52 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 10, 2015, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 10, 2015, 3:52 AM EST (08:52 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 10, 2015, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 10, 2015, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 15 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 08:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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.

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: 233 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

505 
WHUS42 KTBW 100852
CFWTBW

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
352 AM EST TUE FEB 10 2015

...MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING AT AREA
BEACHES... 

.MODERATE AND GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CREATE A MODERATE RISK OF
RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING.

FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-110300-
/O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0009.150210T1200Z-150211T0300Z/
PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA-
COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE-
352 AM EST TUE FEB 10 2015

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH
THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* IMPACTS...STRONGER AND MORE FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS ALONG 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

907 
WHUS42 KTBW 110251
CFWTBW

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
951 PM EST TUE FEB 10 2015

FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-110400-
/O.EXP.KTBW.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-150211T0300Z/
PINELLAS-COASTAL HILLSBOROUGH-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA-
COASTAL CHARLOTTE-COASTAL LEE-
951 PM EST TUE FEB 10 2015

...RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM EST THIS EVENING...

WINDS HAVE TURNED TO THE NORTH AND THE MODERATE RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS HAS LESSENED.

$$


HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/TAMPA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 10, 10:51 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TBW		10 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2015 Every rip current statement in 2015

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.