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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 10, 2021, 2:16 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 52 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2021, 2:16 AM CST (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2021, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 52 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 08:17 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, 8.3 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
- 2361 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
984 WHUS42 KTAE 100816 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 316 AM EST Wed Mar 10 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-110900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0020.210310T0816Z-210311T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 316 AM EST Wed Mar 10 2021 /216 AM CST Wed Mar 10 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
785 WHUS42 KTAE 110016 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 716 PM EST Wed Mar 10 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-110830- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-210311T2100Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 716 PM EST Wed Mar 10 2021 /616 PM CST Wed Mar 10 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
010 WHUS42 KTAE 110828 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 328 AM EST Thu Mar 11 2021 FLZ112-114-115-112030- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-210312T0000Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 328 AM EST Thu Mar 11 2021 /228 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, Gulf, and 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. && $$ FLZ108-112030- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-210312T1200Z/ South Walton- 228 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.