Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 2, 2020, 2:31 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2020, 2:31 AM CST (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2020, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 20 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 08:31 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, 8.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
506 WHUS42 KTAE 020831 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 331 AM EST Thu Jan 2 2020 FLZ108-030500- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0001.200102T0831Z-200103T0500Z/ South Walton- 231 AM CST Thu Jan 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
807 WHUS42 KTAE 021617 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1117 AM EST Thu Jan 2 2020 FLZ112-030030- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-200103T0500Z/ Coastal Bay- 1117 AM EST Thu Jan 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-030030- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-200103T0500Z/ South Walton- 1017 AM CST Thu Jan 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * 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. && $$
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.