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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 19, 2019, 2:19 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 44 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2019, 2:19 AM CST (08:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2019, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 44 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
703 WHUS42 KTAE 190819 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 319 AM EST Tue Feb 19 2019 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH WEDNESDAY... FLZ108-200900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0011.190219T0819Z-190221T0400Z/ South Walton- 219 AM CST Tue Feb 19 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Wednesday evening. * SURF HEIGHTS...4 TO 5 FEET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. 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. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
459 WHUS42 KTAE 191614 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1114 AM EST Tue Feb 19 2019 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH WEDNESDAY... FLZ112-200900- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-190221T0400Z/ Coastal Bay- 1114 AM EST Tue Feb 19 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Wednesday evening. * SURF HEIGHTS...3 TO 4 FEET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current, yell for help. Remain calm, do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current, swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ FLZ108-200900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-190221T0400Z/ South Walton- 1014 AM CST Tue Feb 19 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * SURF HEIGHTS...4 TO 5 FEET. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. 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. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol 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. && $$
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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.