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Rip Current Statement 89, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 22, 2020, 11:36 AM EDT for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2020, 11:36 AM EDT (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2020, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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, 3.6 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
- 124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
823 WHUS42 KTAE 221536 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1136 AM EDT Thu Oct 22 2020 FLZ108-230800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0089.201022T1536Z-201024T0400Z/ South Walton- 1036 AM CDT Thu Oct 22 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Friday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
431 WHUS42 KTAE 230726 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 326 AM EDT Fri Oct 23 2020 FLZ115-240700- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0089.000000T0000Z-201024T0700Z/ Coastal Franklin- 326 AM EDT Fri Oct 23 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-240700- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0089.000000T0000Z-201024T0700Z/ South Walton- 226 AM CDT Fri Oct 23 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton 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. && $$
814 WHUS42 KTAE 240721 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 321 AM EDT Sat Oct 24 2020 FLZ115-250700- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0089.000000T0000Z-201024T0700Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0090.201024T0721Z-201025T0700Z/ Coastal Franklin- 321 AM EDT Sat Oct 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-240830- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0089.000000T0000Z-201024T0700Z/ South Walton- 221 AM CDT Sat Oct 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
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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.