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Rip Current Statement 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL

May 10, 2016Bay County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 10, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 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 15:40 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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

238 
WHUS42 KTAE 101536
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1136 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG WALTON AND BAY COUNTY
BEACHES...

WINDS FROM THE SOUTHEAST WILL PEAK AROUND 10 TO 15 MPH ALONG
PANAHANDLE BEACHES AND SUSTAIN 2 TO 3 FOOT WAVES. WINDS AND SURF 
HEIGHT WILL BE LOWER ALONG FRANKLIN COUNTY BEACHES.
TOMORROW...WINDS WILL BE LIGHT AND FROM THE EAST...SHIFTING TO
ONSHORE IN THE AFTERNOON.

FLZ108-112-110400-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0055.160510T1536Z-160511T0400Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-
1136 AM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016 /1036 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 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.

* SURF HEIGHT...AROUND 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. 

&&

$$

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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.