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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 30, 2021, 2:44 AM EDT for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 30, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 30, 2021, 2:44 AM EDT (06:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 30, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 1, 2021, 1:59 AM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 556 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
875 WHUS42 KJAX 300644 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 244 AM EDT Thu Sep 30 2021 FLZ124-125-133-138-011000- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0024.210930T1200Z-211001T1000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 244 AM EDT Thu Sep 30 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
647 WHUS42 KJAX 010559 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 159 AM EDT Fri Oct 1 2021 FLZ124-125-133-138-021000- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-211001T1000Z/ /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0025.211001T0600Z-211002T1000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 159 AM EDT Fri Oct 1 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ GAZ154-166-021000- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0025.211001T0600Z-211002T1000Z/ Coastal Glynn-Coastal Camden- 159 AM EDT Fri Oct 1 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Southeast Georgia 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. && $$
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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.