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Rip Current Statement 72, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 8, 2016, 10:07 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2016, 10:07 AM CDT (15:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 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
- 216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
282 WHUS42 KTAE 081507 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1107 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND GULF COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-114-090100- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0072.160808T1507Z-160809T0100Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL GULF- 1107 AM EDT MON AUG 8 2016 /1007 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2016/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. 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. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT && $$
1 follow-up statement
283 WHUS42 KTAE 081620 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1220 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND GULF COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... FLZ112-090100- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0072.000000T0000Z-160809T0100Z/ COASTAL BAY- 1220 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE... FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED... FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT && $$ FLZ108-114-090100- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0072.000000T0000Z-160809T0100Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL GULF- 1220 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2016 /1120 AM CDT MON AUG 8 2016/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. 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. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE... FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED... FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 8:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 10:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 min | |
| Aug 7, 10:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 38 min | |
| Aug 7, 11:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 50 min | |
| Aug 8, 12:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 47 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:08 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 52 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:42 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 4 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 9:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | Dixie, Lafayette, Taylor | 12 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:13 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 29 hr | |
| Aug 8, 4:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 91 min |
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.