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Rip Current Statement 53, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 2, 2016, 9:30 AM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 2016, 9:30 AM CDT (14:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
317 WHUS42 KTAE 021430 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1030 AM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 ...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG BAY AND WALTON COUNTY BEACHES... SOUTHERLY FLOW AROUND 12 MPH WILL YIELD SURF OF 2 TO 4 FEET ALONG THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES. EXPECT HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG BAY AND WALTON COUNTY BEACHES. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO SOUTHWESTERLY ON TUESDAY. FLZ108-112-030400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0053.160502T1430Z-160503T0400Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 1030 AM EDT MON MAY 2 2016 /930 AM CDT MON MAY 2 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. * WAVE HEIGHTS...3 TO 4 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. && $$
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.