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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2020, 3:10 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 22, 2020, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2020, 3:10 AM EST (08:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 22, 2020, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2020, 12:15 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 745 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
773 WHUS42 KTBW 220810 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 310 AM EST Sat Feb 22 2020 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-230000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0009.200222T1200Z-200223T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 310 AM EST Sat Feb 22 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Tampa Bay Ruskin has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from 7 AM EST this morning through this evening. * RIP CURRENT TIMING...Increased wave action will create rip currents this morning through this evening. * RIP CURRENT IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore...which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins... jetties and piers. For maximum safety...swim near a lifeguard. Pay attention to flags and signs. If you become caught in a rip current...yell for help. Remain calm...do not exhaust yourself and stay afloat while waiting for help. If you have to swim out of a rip current...swim parallel to shore and back toward the beach when possible. Do not attempt to swim directly against a rip current as you will tire quickly. && $$ https://www.weather.gov/tampa
1 follow-up statement
249 WHUS42 KTBW 221715 CFWTBW URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 1215 PM EST Sat Feb 22 2020 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-221815- /O.CAN.KTBW.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-200223T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 1215 PM EST Sat Feb 22 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Tampa Bay Ruskin has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. Winds and waves have diminished and the rip current risk has lowered. $$ https://www.weather.gov/tampa
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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.