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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 27, 2018, 4:14 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 2018, 4:14 AM EDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 28, 2018, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
338 WHUS42 KTBW 270814 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 414 AM EDT Sat Oct 27 2018 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-280000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0014.181027T0814Z-181028T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 414 AM EDT Sat Oct 27 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Tampa Bay Ruskin has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through this evening. * RIP CURRENT TIMING...Increasing onshore winds and wave action will create the potential for hazardous rip currents through this evening. * RIP CURRENT IMPACTS...Hazardous rip currents will create life threatening conditions for anyone venturing into the water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore...which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins... jetties and piers. For maximum safety...swim near a lifeguard. Pay attention to flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current...yell for help. Remain calm...do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current...swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ https://www.weather.gov/tampa
2 follow-up statements
031 WHUS42 KTBW 271830 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 230 PM EDT Sat Oct 27 2018 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-290000- /O.EXT.KTBW.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-181029T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 230 PM EDT Sat Oct 27 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * RIP CURRENT TIMING...Onshore winds and wave action will create the potential for hazardous rip currents through Sunday. * RIP CURRENT IMPACTS...Hazardous rip currents will create life threatening conditions for anyone venturing into the water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore...which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins... jetties and piers. For maximum safety...swim near a lifeguard. Pay attention to flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current...yell for help. Remain calm...do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current...swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ https://www.weather.gov/tampa
674 WHUS42 KTBW 280730 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 330 AM EDT Sun Oct 28 2018 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-290000- /O.CON.KTBW.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-181029T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 330 AM EDT Sun Oct 28 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * RIP CURRENT TIMING...Onshore winds and wave action will create the potential for hazardous rip currents through this evening. * RIP CURRENT IMPACTS...Hazardous rip currents will create life threatening conditions for anyone venturing into the water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore...which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins... jetties and piers. For maximum safety...swim near a lifeguard. Pay attention to flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current...yell for help. Remain calm...do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current...swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ https://www.weather.gov/tampa
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2018Every rip current statement in 2018
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.