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Rip Current Statement 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 25, 2020Bay County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 25, 2020, 9:35 AM CDT for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2020, 9:35 AM CDT (14:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2020, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 15 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 14:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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.

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: 970 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1002 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

As transmitted.

462 
WHUS42 KTAE 251435
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1035 AM EDT Thu Jun 25 2020

FLZ108-112-252245-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0055.200625T1435Z-200626T0600Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-
1035 AM EDT Thu Jun 25 2020 /935 AM CDT Thu Jun 25 2020/

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

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Walton and Bay 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 7:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	41 min
Jun 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	48 min
Jun 24, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	46 min
Jun 24, 9:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	49 min
Jun 25, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	41 min
Jun 25, 2:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	50 min
Jun 25, 3:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	33 min
Jun 25, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	54 min
Jun 25, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	46 min
Jun 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	25 min
Jun 25, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	34 min
Jun 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	30 min
Jun 25, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	26 min
Jun 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	36 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.