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Rip Current Statement 46, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 17, 20174 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 17, 2017, 8:09 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 17, 2017, 8:09 AM CDT (13:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 18, 2017, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 20 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

781 
WHUS42 KTAE 171309
CFWTAE

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
909 AM EDT MON APR 17 2017

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG FL PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND
BEACHES...


FLZ108-112-114-115-180900-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0046.170417T1309Z-170418T0900Z/
SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN-
909 AM EDT MON APR 17 2017 /809 AM CDT MON APR 17 2017/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. 

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING

* IMPACTS...INCREASED CHANCE FOR DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TO DEVELOP

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
Apr 17, 5:15 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	4 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.