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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 10, 2020, 3:49 AM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It took effect at Mar 10, 2020, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2020, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 10, 2020, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
County Flagler County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
042 WHUS42 KJAX 100749 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 349 AM EDT Tue Mar 10 2020 FLZ133-138-102015- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-200310T0800Z/ /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0009.200310T0800Z-200311T0700Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 349 AM EDT Tue Mar 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and rough surf expected. * WHERE...Coastal St. Johns and Coastal Flagler Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ124-125-100900- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-200310T0800Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval- 349 AM EDT Tue Mar 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Moderate risk of rip currents. Life-threatening rip currents are still possible. $$
1 follow-up statement
763 WHUS42 KJAX 101934 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 334 PM EDT Tue Mar 10 2020 FLZ133-138-110700- /O.CON.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-200311T0700Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 334 PM EDT Tue Mar 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal St. Johns and Coastal Flagler Counties. * WHEN...Until 3 AM EDT Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.