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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 15, 2021, 1:11 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2021, 1:11 AM CST (07:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 41 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
820 WHUS42 KTAE 150711 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 211 AM EST Mon Feb 15 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-170000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0014.210215T0711Z-210217T0000Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 211 AM EST Mon Feb 15 2021 /111 AM CST Mon Feb 15 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Tuesday 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 1:16 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 29 hr | |
| Feb 15, 12:35 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Feb 15, 12:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 67 min |
| Feb 15, 1:12 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Feb 15, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 54 min |
| Feb 15, 1:39 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 20 hr |
| Feb 15, 1:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 62 min |
| Feb 15, 2:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 28 min |
| Feb 15, 2:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more | 53 min |
| Feb 15, 2:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Madison | 55 min |
| Feb 15, 2:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Lafayette | 21 min |
| Feb 15, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Jackson, Washington | 12 min |
| Feb 15, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 57 min |
| Feb 15, 3:25 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Feb 15, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 64 min |
| Feb 15, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 26 min |
| Feb 15, 5:22 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 38 min | |
| Feb 15, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dixie | 35 min |
| Feb 15, 5:56 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 34 min |
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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.