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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Jacksonville, FL

February 4, 2017Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 4, 2017, 2:52 AM EST for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 4, 2017, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2017, 2:52 AM EST (07:52 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 4, 2017, 3:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 4, 2017, 6:32 PM EST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Jacksonville, FL

Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

134 
WHUS42 KJAX 040752
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
252 AM EST SAT FEB 4 2017


FLZ033-038-124-125-050000-
/O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0001.170204T0800Z-170205T0000Z/
ST. JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL NASSAU-COASTAL DUVAL-
252 AM EST SAT FEB 4 2017

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

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

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING.

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.

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

665 
WHUS42 KJAX 042332
CFWJAX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
632 PM EST SAT FEB 4 2017


FLZ033-038-124-125-050045-
/O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-170205T0000Z/
ST. JOHNS-FLAGLER-COASTAL NASSAU-COASTAL DUVAL-
632 PM EST SAT FEB 4 2017

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSONVILLE HAS CANCELLED THE
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. 

$$

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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.