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Rip Current Statement 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 28, 2016, 9:55 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2016, 9:55 AM CDT (14:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
132 WHUS42 KTAE 281455 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1055 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2016 ...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY AT PANHANDLE BEACHES... LINGERING SURF OF OF 2 TO 3 FEET IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. LIGHTER WINDS AND LOWER SURF IS EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. FLZ108-112-114-290400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0038.160328T1455Z-160329T0400Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 1055 AM EDT MON MAR 28 2016 /955 AM CDT MON MAR 28 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 MIDNIGHT. * WAVES...2 TO 3 FEET. 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 27, 8:37 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 12 days |
| Mar 28, 2:36 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Gadsden, Leon | 12 days |
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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.