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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 21, 2021, 2:48 AM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2021, 2:48 AM EST (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2021, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 45 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 2773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
860 WHUS42 KTAE 210748 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 248 AM EST Sun Feb 21 2021 FLZ115-220900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0017.210221T0748Z-210222T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 248 AM EST Sun Feb 21 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
821 WHUS42 KTAE 211524 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1024 AM EST Sun Feb 21 2021 FLZ115-220000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-210222T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1024 AM EST Sun Feb 21 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
920 WHUS42 KTAE 220801 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 301 AM EST Mon Feb 22 2021 FLZ115-230500- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-210223T0500Z/ Coastal Franklin- 301 AM EST Mon Feb 22 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. && $$
506 WHUS42 KTAE 221620 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1120 AM EST Mon Feb 22 2021 FLZ114-230500- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-210223T0500Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1120 AM EST Mon Feb 22 2021 /1020 AM CST Mon Feb 22 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-230500- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-210223T0500Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1120 AM EST Mon Feb 22 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:24 AM EST | River Flood Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Madison, Taylor | 32 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2021Every rip current statement in 2021
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.