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Rip Current Statement 109, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 16, 2020, 11:37 PM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2020, 11:37 PM CST (05:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 2020, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 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 05:36 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, 5.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
816 WHUS42 KTAE 170537 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1237 AM EST Thu Dec 17 2020 FLZ112-114-171345- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0109.201217T0537Z-201218T0000Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1237 AM EST Thu Dec 17 2020 /1137 PM CST Wed Dec 16 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf 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. && $$ FLZ108-115-171200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0109.201217T0537Z-201217T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Franklin- 1237 AM EST Thu Dec 17 2020 /1137 PM CST Wed Dec 16 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ this morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.