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Rip Current Statement 50, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 6, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 6, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 524 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted.
215 WHUS42 KTAE 061520 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1120 AM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 FLZ114-070300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0050.210606T1520Z-210607T0300Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1120 AM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 /1020 AM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
212 WHUS42 KTAE 061725 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 125 PM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 FLZ108-070300- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0050.000000T0000Z-210607T0300Z/ South Walton- 1225 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ114-070300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0050.000000T0000Z-210607T0300Z/ Coastal Gulf- 125 PM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 /1225 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 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. && $$
235 WHUS42 KTAE 061734 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 134 PM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 FLZ112-070300- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0050.000000T0000Z-210607T0300Z/ Coastal Bay- 1234 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-114-070300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0050.000000T0000Z-210607T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Gulf- 134 PM EDT Sun Jun 6 2021 /1234 PM CDT Sun Jun 6 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County and Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 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.