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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Jacksonville, FL

September 14, 2016Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 14, 2016, 6:54 AM EDT for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 14, 2016, 7:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 14, 2016, 6:54 AM EDT (10:54 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 14, 2016, 7:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 14, 2016, 6:12 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:54 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-09-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 603 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-09-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
603 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

005 
WHUS42 KJAX 141054
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
654 AM EDT WED SEP 14 2016

FLZ033-038-124-125-142300-
/O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0010.160914T1100Z-160914T2300Z/
ST. JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL NASSAU-COASTAL DUVAL-
654 AM EDT WED SEP 14 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH
RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE LIKELY IN THE SURF
  ZONE. ROUGH SURF MAY ALSO KNOCK YOU DOWN. REMEMBER TO HEED THE
  ADVICE OF THE LOCAL BEACH PATROL AND FLAG WARNING SYSTEMS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING.

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.

SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM.
DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE
SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE
FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP
CURRENT.

&&

$$

NELSON
1 follow-up statement
395 
WHUS42 KJAX 142212
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
612 PM EDT WED SEP 14 2016


FLZ033-038-124-125-142315-
/O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-160914T2300Z/
ST. JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL NASSAU-COASTAL DUVAL-
612 PM EDT WED SEP 14 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. 

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 8:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXDuval38 min
Sep 13, 8:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXNassau54 min
Sep 13, 8:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXDuval54 min
Sep 13, 8:43 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJAXDuval, Saint Johns3 hr
Sep 13, 9:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXDuval67 min
Sep 13, 9:29 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningJAXDuval, Saint Johns3 hr
Sep 13, 9:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval46 min
Sep 13, 10:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXDuval55 min
Sep 13, 10:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAXDuval, Nassau45 min
Sep 13, 10:34 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX10 hr
Sep 13, 10:34 PM EDTTropical Storm WarningJAXDuval, Nassau12 hr
Sep 14, 2:50 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX55 min
Sep 14, 4:04 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX56 min
Sep 14, 5:01 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningJAX29 min
Sep 14, 8:31 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryJAX10 hr
Sep 14, 12:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXMarion49 min
Sep 14, 1:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementJAXSaint Johns38 min

Nearby

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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.