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Rip Current Statement 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at May 23, 2021, 4:31 AM EDT for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2021, 4:31 AM EDT (08:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2021, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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, 8.5 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
- 2062 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
271 WHUS42 KTAE 230831 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 431 AM EDT Sun May 23 2021 FLZ108-231645- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0048.210523T0831Z-210523T2300Z/ South Walton- 331 AM CDT Sun May 23 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
341 WHUS42 KTAE 231501 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1101 AM EDT Sun May 23 2021 FLZ115-240000- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-210524T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1101 AM EDT Sun May 23 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-240000- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-210524T0000Z/ South Walton- 1001 AM CDT Sun May 23 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT 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.