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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Tampa Bay, FL

January 8, 2016Manatee County, Pinellas County, Sarasota County, Florida

NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 8, 2016, 4:46 AM EST for Manatee County, Pinellas County, Sarasota County, Florida. It took effect at Jan 8, 2016, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 8, 2016, 4:46 AM EST (09:46 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 8, 2016, 7:00 AM EST
Expired
Jan 8, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Tampa Bay, FL

Counties Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL

The radar

The Tampa radar (KTBW), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:48 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

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 22 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 00:00Z on 2016-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

130 
WHUS42 KTBW 080946
CFWTBW

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAMPA BAY RUSKIN FL
446 AM EST FRI JAN 8 2016

FLZ050-155-160-090000-
/O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0001.160108T1200Z-160109T0000Z/
PINELLAS-COASTAL MANATEE-COASTAL SARASOTA-
446 AM EST FRI JAN 8 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAMPA BAY RUSKIN HAS ISSUED A
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* RIP CURRENT TIMING...THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* RIP CURRENT IMPACTS...INCREASED WAVE ACTION ASSOCIATED WITH
  EASTWARD MOVING SWELL OVER THE GULF WILL LEAD TO A HEIGHTENED
  RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 AND THE BEACH
PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. 

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE
FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG
SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED 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.