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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 2, 2021, 12:41 PM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2021, 12:41 PM CST (18:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2021, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 655 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
822 WHUS42 KTAE 021841 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 141 PM EST Tue Mar 2 2021 FLZ114-030600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0019.210302T1841Z-210303T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 141 PM EST Tue Mar 2 2021 /1241 PM CST Tue Mar 2 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST /MIDNIGHT CST/ WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 1 AM EST /midnight CST/ Wednesday. * 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. && $$ FLZ108-112-030600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-210303T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 141 PM EST Tue Mar 2 2021 /1241 PM CST Tue Mar 2 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EST /MIDNIGHT CST/ WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 1 AM EST /midnight CST/ Wednesday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.