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Rip Current Statement 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 25, 2017, 3:04 AM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2017, 3:04 AM CDT (08:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2017, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 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 08:07 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, 8.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2013 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
159 WHUS42 KTAE 250804 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 404 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... FLZ108-112-260300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0035.170325T0804Z-170326T0300Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 404 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017 /304 AM CDT SAT MAR 25 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. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
385 WHUS42 KTAE 251355 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 955 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON...BAY AND FRANKLIN COUNTY BEACHES TODAY... FLZ115-260300- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0035.000000T0000Z-170326T0300Z/ COASTAL FRANKLIN- 955 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR...AS WELL AS IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS...AND SIGNS BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT DO NOT SWIM AGAINST IT. FACE THE SHORE AND SIGNAL FOR HELP. FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL THE CURRENT ENDS OR UNTIL RESCUED. && $$ FLZ108-112-260300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0035.000000T0000Z-170326T0300Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY- 955 AM EDT SAT MAR 25 2017 /855 AM CDT SAT MAR 25 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING. 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. && $$
Nearby
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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.