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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 16, 2016, 2:24 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2016, 2:24 AM CST (08:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2016, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
695 WHUS42 KTAE 160824 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 324 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS POSSIBLE TODAY ALONG THE BEACHES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND ST GEORGE ISLAND ... FLZ108-112-114-115-170000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0023.160216T0824Z-160217T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 324 AM EST TUE FEB 16 2016 /224 AM CST TUE FEB 16 2016/ ...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...THROUGH THIS EVENING. 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. && $$ FOURNIER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 6:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 41 min |
| Feb 15, 6:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 60 min |
| Feb 15, 7:09 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 96 min | |
| Feb 15, 7:11 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 94 min | |
| Feb 15, 7:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Jackson, Washington | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 7:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Jackson | 42 min |
| Feb 15, 8:36 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Feb 15, 9:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla | 47 min |
| Feb 15, 9:23 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 97 min | |
| Feb 15, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Taylor and 1 more | 45 min |
| Feb 15, 9:54 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 96 min | |
| Feb 15, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla | 32 min |
| Feb 15, 10:52 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 53 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.