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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 4, 2021, 1:37 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 4, 2021, 2:00 AM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2021, 1:37 AM CST (07:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 4, 2021, 2:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2021, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 24 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 07:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
341 WHUS42 KTAE 040737 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 237 AM EST Thu Feb 4 2021 FLZ108-050800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0012.210204T0800Z-210205T0800Z/ South Walton- 137 AM CST Thu Feb 4 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
533 WHUS42 KTAE 041653 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1153 AM EST Thu Feb 4 2021 FLZ112-050100- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-210205T0800Z/ Coastal Bay- 1153 AM EST Thu Feb 4 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Conditions are trending towards a high risk of rip currents at Bay County as winds become more southerly and increase ahead of a cold front today. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-050100- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-210205T0800Z/ South Walton- 1053 AM CST Thu Feb 4 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
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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.