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Rip Current Statement 58, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 19, 2017, 9:41 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2017, 9:41 AM CDT (14:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2017, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
243 WHUS42 KTAE 191441 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 1041 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND TONIGHT ALONG GULF COUNTY BEACHES... .SOUTHEAST TO EAST WINDS OF 10 MPH WILL ALLOW FOR STRONG AND FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS TO BE POSSIBLE.. FLZ114-200400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0058.170519T1441Z-170520T0400Z/ COASTAL GULF- 1041 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 2017 /941 AM CDT FRI MAY 19 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT * IMPACTS...HIGH RISK FOR 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
314 WHUS42 KTAE 191820 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 220 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG THE BEACHES OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE FROM SAINT GEORGE ISLAND WESTWARD... FLZ108-112-115-200400- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0058.000000T0000Z-170520T0400Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 220 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2017 /120 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT /11 PM CDT/ TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT /11 PM CDT/ TONIGHT. * TIMING...TODAY. * IMPACTS...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR...AS WELL AS IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS...AND SIGNS BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT DO NOT SWIM AGAINST IT. FACE THE SHORE AND SIGNAL FOR HELP. FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL THE CURRENT ENDS OR UNTIL RESCUED. && $$ FLZ114-200400- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0058.000000T0000Z-170520T0400Z/ COASTAL GULF- 220 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2017 /120 PM CDT FRI MAY 19 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT /11 PM CDT/ TONIGHT... * TIMING...TODAY. * IMPACTS...HIGH RISK FOR 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.