Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2016
Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 12, 2016, 2:35 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2016, 2:35 AM CST (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2016, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
165 WHUS42 KTAE 120835 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 335 AM EST SAT MAR 12 2016 ...STRONG AND FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY ALONG THE PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES... FLZ108-112-114-115-130800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0029.160312T0835Z-160313T0800Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 335 AM EST SAT MAR 12 2016 /235 AM CST SAT MAR 12 2016/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * SURF: 3 TO 5 FEET IN WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES. 2 TO 4 FEET IN FRANKLIN AND GULF COUNTIES. * IMPACTS: DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS DUE TO STRONG CURRENTS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
497 WHUS42 KTAE 130725 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 325 AM EDT SUN MAR 13 2016 ...STRONG AND FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY ALONG THE PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES... FLZ108-112-114-115-140300- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-160314T0300Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 325 AM EDT SUN MAR 13 2016 /125 AM CST SUN MAR 13 2016/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * SURF: 3 TO 4 FEET IN WALTON AND BAY COUNTIES. 2 TO 3 FEET IN FRANKLIN AND GULF COUNTIES. * IMPACTS: DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS DUE TO STRONG CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
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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.