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Rip Current Statement 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 21, 2016Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 21, 2016, 10:32 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 21, 2016, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 21, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

446 
WHUS42 KTAE 211532
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1132 AM EDT MON MAR 21 2016

...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS AT GULF COUNTY BEACHES...

STRONG OFFSHORE WINDS WILL DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON AS HIGH
PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE AREA. LINGERING SURF OF 2 TO 3 FEET
THIS MORNING WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND REMAIN
LOW ON TUESDAY. 

FLZ114-220400-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0033.160321T1532Z-160322T0400Z/
COASTAL GULF-
1132 AM EDT MON MAR 21 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...UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

* IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP 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. 

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 2:43 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	TAE	Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson and 8 more	29 hr

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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.