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Rip Current Statement 110, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 20, 2021, 1:24 AM EST for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 20, 2021, 1:24 AM EST (06:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 21, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1840 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
980 WHUS42 KTAE 200624 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 124 AM EST Sat Nov 20 2021 FLZ115-210900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0110.211120T0624Z-211121T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 124 AM EST Sat Nov 20 2021 ...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. && $$ DVD
2 follow-up statements
703 WHUS42 KTAE 201655 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1155 AM EST Sat Nov 20 2021 FLZ115-210100- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0110.000000T0000Z-211121T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1155 AM EST Sat Nov 20 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
068 WHUS42 KTAE 210623 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 123 AM EST Sun Nov 21 2021 FLZ115-220000- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0110.000000T0000Z-211122T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 123 AM EST Sun Nov 21 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this 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. && $$ DVD
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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.