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Rip Current Statement 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 29, 2020, 4:18 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2020, 4:18 AM CDT (09:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2020, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 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 09:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 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
- 2234 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
322 WHUS42 KTAE 290918 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 518 AM EDT Wed Apr 29 2020 FLZ108-112-114-115-300400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0038.200429T0918Z-200430T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 518 AM EDT Wed Apr 29 2020 /418 AM CDT Wed Apr 29 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Apr 29, 12:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay, Gulf | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gulf | 10 min |
| Apr 29, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Apr 29, 4:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 29, 5:38 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 97 min | |
| Apr 29, 5:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 66 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 33 min |
| Apr 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 41 min |
| Apr 29, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gulf, Liberty | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 28 min |
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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.