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Rip Current Statement 84, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 5, 2016Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 5, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2016, 10:36 AM CDT (15:36 UTC)
Expired: Sep 5, 2016, 11:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 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 15:36 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, 3.6 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

917 
WHUS42 KTAE 051536
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1136 AM EDT MON SEP 5 2016

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

WINDS WILL BE FROM THE EAST AT 10 MPH OR LESS TODAY WITH SURF
HEIGHTS OF 1 TO 3 FEET. DRIER CONDITIONS ARE ON TAP FOR THE NEXT
FEW DAYS WITH ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
TODAY.

FLZ108-112-115-060400-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0084.160905T1536Z-160906T0400Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
1136 AM EDT MON SEP 5 2016 /1036 AM CDT MON SEP 5 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...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. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR...AS WELL AS IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES AND PIERS.

HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS...AND SIGNS
BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT DO NOT SWIM
AGAINST IT. FACE THE SHORE AND SIGNAL FOR HELP. FLOAT OR TREAD
WATER UNTIL THE CURRENT ENDS OR UNTIL RESCUED.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 8:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	TAE	Wakulla	4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.