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Rip Current Statement 72, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 6, 2019, 2:33 AM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 6, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2019, 2:33 AM CDT (07:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 6, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2019, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1991 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
198 WHUS42 KTAE 060733 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 333 AM EDT Sun Oct 6 2019 FLZ108-112-061545- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0072.191006T1200Z-191007T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 333 AM EDT Sun Oct 6 2019 /233 AM CDT Sun Oct 6 2019/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ this morning through late tonight. * TIMING...Through tonight. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
087 WHUS42 KTAE 061429 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1029 AM EDT Sun Oct 6 2019 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR FRANKLIN, BAY, and WALTON COUNTY BEACHES... FLZ115-062230- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0072.000000T0000Z-191007T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1029 AM EDT Sun Oct 6 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through late tonight. * TIMING...Through tonight. * SURF HEIGHTS...2 TO 3 feet. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties and piers. Heed the advice of lifeguards, beach patrol flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current, yell for help. Remain calm, do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current, swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ FLZ108-112-062230- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0072.000000T0000Z-191007T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1029 AM EDT Sun Oct 6 2019 /929 AM CDT Sun Oct 6 2019/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * TIMING...Through tonight. * 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. && $$
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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.