Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 9, 2017, 3:31 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 9, 2017, 3:31 AM CDT (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 11, 2017, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 08:32 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, 8.5 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
- 551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
108 WHUS42 KTAE 090831 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 431 AM EDT MON OCT 9 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES... .ONSHORE WINDS WILL BE DECREASING THROUGH THE DAY TODAY, AS WILL THE SURF HEIGHTS, BUT WITH RECENTLY AGITATED CURRENTS AND STILL HIGH SWELLS FROM NATE, THERE WILL STILL BE A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG OUR PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES. FLZ108-112-114-115-101200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0099.171009T0831Z-171010T1200Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 431 AM EDT MON OCT 9 2017 /331 AM CDT MON OCT 9 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. * TIMING...TODAY AND TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK OF 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
332 WHUS42 KTAE 100814 CFWTAE COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 414 AM EDT TUE OCT 10 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG PANHANDLE AND BIG BEND BEACHES... FLZ108-112-114-115-111200- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0099.000000T0000Z-171011T1200Z/ SOUTH WALTON-COASTAL BAY-COASTAL GULF-COASTAL FRANKLIN- 414 AM EDT TUE OCT 10 2017 /314 AM CDT TUE OCT 10 2017/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * TIMING...TODAY AND TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR...AS WELL AS IN THE VICINITY OF JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL FLAGS...AND SIGNS BEFORE ENTERING THE WATER. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT DO NOT SWIM AGAINST IT. FACE THE SHORE AND SIGNAL FOR HELP. FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL THE CURRENT ENDS OR UNTIL RESCUED. && $$
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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.