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Rip Current Statement 94, NWS Tallahassee, FL

November 27, 20194 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 27, 2019, 10:34 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 27, 2019, 10:34 AM CST (16:34 UTC)
Expired: Nov 28, 2019, 2:01 AM CST
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 298 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

595 
WHUS42 KTAE 271634
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1134 AM EST Wed Nov 27 2019

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG WALTON, BAY, GULF, AND FRANKLIN
COUNTY BEACHES THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO TONIGHT...

FLZ108-112-114-115-280045-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0094.191127T1634Z-191128T1200Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
1134 AM EST Wed Nov 27 2019 /1034 AM CST Wed Nov 27 2019/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING...

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has issued a High Rip
Current Risk, which is in effect through Thursday morning. 

* TIMING...WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING


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

357 
WHUS42 KTAE 280801
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
301 AM EST Thu Nov 28 2019

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

FLZ108-112-114-115-280915-
/O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0094.000000T0000Z-191128T1200Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
301 AM EST Thu Nov 28 2019 /201 AM CST Thu Nov 28 2019/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

The National Weather Service in Tallahassee has cancelled the
High Rip Current Risk. 

$$

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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.