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Rip Current Statement 33, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 15, 2017Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 15, 2017, 8:32 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 2017, 8:32 AM CDT (13:32 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2017, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:32 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

175 
WHUS42 KTAE 151332
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
932 AM EDT WED MAR 15 2017

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG GULF COUNTY BEACHES 
INCLUDING SAINT JOSEPH STATE PARK...

.NORTH WINDS AROUND 15 MPH WILL GENERATE ROUGH SURF AND RIP
CURRENTS ALONG THE BEACHES OF SAINT JOSEPH STATE PARK TODAY...

FLZ114-152145-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0033.170315T1332Z-170315T2200Z/
COASTAL GULF-
932 AM EDT WED MAR 15 2017 /832 AM CDT WED MAR 15 2017/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT /5 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT /5 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING. 

* TIMING...TODAY

* IMPACTS...DANGEROUS 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 2:00 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	31 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2017 Every rip current statement in 2017

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.