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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 12, 2021, 11:06 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2021, 11:06 AM CST (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2021, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 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 17:09 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, 5.1 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
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
528 WHUS42 KTAE 121706 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1206 PM EST Fri Mar 12 2021 FLZ108-112-130100- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0021.210312T1706Z-210313T0200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1106 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 8 PM CST 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
441 WHUS42 KTAE 130053 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 753 PM EST Fri Mar 12 2021 FLZ108-112-130200- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-210313T0200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 653 PM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 8 PM CST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.