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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 23, 2019, 12:31 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2019, 12:31 AM CST (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2019, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 21 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 06:31 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, 6.5 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
205 WHUS42 KTAE 230631 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 131 AM EST Sat Feb 23 2019 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING... FLZ108-112-231445- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0014.190223T0631Z-190224T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 131 AM EST Sat Feb 23 2019 /1231 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019/ ...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. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
066 WHUS42 KTAE 231538 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1038 AM EST Sat Feb 23 2019 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT WALTON AND BAY COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING... FLZ108-112-240300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-190224T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1038 AM EST Sat Feb 23 2019 /938 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * SURF HEIGHTS...2 to 3 feet. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current, yell for help. Remain calm, do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current, swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:09 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington | 14 hr |
| Feb 22, 7:09 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
Nearby
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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.