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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 13, 20204 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 13, 2020, 3:37 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2020, 3:37 AM CST (09:37 UTC)
Expired: Feb 14, 2020, 3:00 AM CST
In force: 23 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 09:40 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 00:00Z, 9.6 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: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

832 
WHUS42 KTAE 130937
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
437 AM EST Thu Feb 13 2020

FLZ108-112-114-115-140900-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0017.200213T0937Z-200214T0900Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
437 AM EST Thu Feb 13 2020 /337 AM CST Thu Feb 13 2020/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches.

* WHEN...Through late tonight.

* IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away 
  from shore into deeper water.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Showers and thunderstorms with gusty winds
  and potential for severe weather expected with passage of cold
  front.

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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 8:18 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		57 min
Feb 13, 8:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Washington	57 min
Feb 13, 9:41 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jackson	34 min
Feb 13, 10:24 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun	51 min
Feb 13, 11:10 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Liberty	65 min
Feb 13, 12:23 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	52 min
Feb 13, 1:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	33 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2020 Every rip current statement in 2020

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.