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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 25, 2017, 1:35 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2017, 1:35 AM CST (07:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2017, 1:00 AM CST
- In force
- 47 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 07:38 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, 7.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
232 WHUS42 KTAE 250735 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 235 AM EST WED JAN 25 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE BEACHES OF GULF...BAY...AND WALTON COUNTIES... FLZ108-112-114-261000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0013.170125T0735Z-170127T0700Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 235 AM EST WED JAN 25 2017 /135 AM CST WED JAN 25 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. * TIMING...THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT * IMPACTS...FREQUENT AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ FOURNIER
2 follow-up statements
120 WHUS42 KTAE 260731 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 231 AM EST THU JAN 26 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE BEACHES OF GULF... BAY...AND WALTON COUNTIES... FLZ108-112-114-270700- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-170127T0700Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 231 AM EST THU JAN 26 2017 /131 AM CST THU JAN 26 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT * IMPACTS...FREQUENT AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR...AS WELL AS IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS...AND SIGNS BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT DO NOT SWIM AGAINST IT. FACE THE SHORE AND SIGNAL FOR HELP. FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL THE CURRENT ENDS OR UNTIL RESCUED. && $$ FOURNIER
257 WHUS42 KTAE 270725 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 225 AM EST FRI JAN 27 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES TODAY ALONG THE BEACHES OF GULF... BAY...AND WALTON COUNTIES... FLZ108-112-114-280000- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-170127T0700Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0014.170127T0725Z-170128T0000Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF- 225 AM EST FRI JAN 27 2017 /125 AM CST FRI JAN 27 2017/ ...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. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ FOURNIER
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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.