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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 22, 2019Bay County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2019, 9:58 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 22, 2019, 9:58 AM CST (15:58 UTC)
Expired: Feb 22, 2019, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 11 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 16:16 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, 4.0 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.

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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -160 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

779 
WHUS42 KTAE 221558
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1058 AM EST Fri Feb 22 2019

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES 
THROUGH THIS EVENING...


FLZ108-112-230300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0013.190222T1558Z-190223T0300Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-
1058 AM EST Fri Feb 22 2019 /958 AM CST Fri Feb 22 2019/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/
THIS EVENING...

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip
Current Risk, which is in effect until 10 PM EST /9 PM CST/ this
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. 

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 21, 10:32 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson and 5 more	10 hr

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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.