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Rip Current Statement 41, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 14, 2020, 2:41 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2020, 2:41 AM CDT (07:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2020, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 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 07:40 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, 7.7 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
- 2148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
126 WHUS42 KTAE 140741 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 341 AM EDT Thu May 14 2020 FLZ108-112-114-115-150900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0041.200514T0741Z-200515T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 341 AM EDT Thu May 14 2020 /241 AM CDT Thu May 14 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. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
402 WHUS42 KTAE 150827 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 427 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 FLZ112-114-150930- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-200515T0900Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 427 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 /327 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ108-115-160900- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-200516T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Franklin- 427 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 /327 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Franklin County Beaches. * 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. && $$
724 WHUS42 KTAE 151508 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1108 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 FLZ112-114-160900- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-200516T0900Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1108 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 /1008 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-115-160900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-200516T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Franklin- 1108 AM EDT Fri May 15 2020 /1008 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Franklin County Beaches. * 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. && $$
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.