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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 16, 2021, 10:18 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2021, 10:18 AM CDT (15:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 days
- 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 15:22 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 12:00Z, 3.3 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
298 WHUS42 KTAE 161518 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1118 AM EDT Tue Mar 16 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-190900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0024.210316T1518Z-210319T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1118 AM EDT Tue Mar 16 2021 /1018 AM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * 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. && $$ DVD
3 follow-up statements
445 WHUS42 KTAE 170739 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 339 AM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-181100- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-210319T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 339 AM EDT Wed Mar 17 2021 /239 AM CDT Wed Mar 17 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
349 WHUS42 KTAE 190812 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 412 AM EDT Fri Mar 19 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-200615- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-210320T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 412 AM EDT Fri Mar 19 2021 /312 AM CDT Fri Mar 19 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW 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. && $$
859 WHUS42 KTAE 191516 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1116 AM EDT Fri Mar 19 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-192330- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-210320T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1116 AM EDT Fri Mar 19 2021 /1016 AM CDT Fri Mar 19 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.