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Rip Current Statement 79, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 15, 2016, 2:44 AM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2016, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 945 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
087 WHUS42 KTAE 150744 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 344 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... FLZ108-112-160000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0079.160815T0744Z-160816T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 344 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 /244 AM CDT MON AUG 15 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 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. && $$ FOURNIER
1 follow-up statement
228 WHUS42 KTAE 151411 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1011 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... FLZ115-160000- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0079.000000T0000Z-160816T0000Z/ COASTAL FRANKLIN- 1011 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS AND SIGNS. && $$ FLZ108-112-160000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0079.000000T0000Z-160816T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 1011 AM EDT MON AUG 15 2016 /911 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 11:03 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 27 min | |
| Aug 15, 11:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 65 min | |
| Aug 15, 1:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 45 min |
| Aug 15, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 46 min |
| Aug 15, 3:28 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 5:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 37 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2016Every rip current statement in 2016
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.