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Rip Current Statement 77, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 23, 2021Bay County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 23, 2021, 10:42 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2021, 10:42 AM CDT (15:42 UTC)
Expired: Aug 24, 2021, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 15 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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, 3.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

283 
WHUS42 KTAE 231542
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1142 AM EDT Mon Aug 23 2021

FLZ112-114-240700-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0077.210823T1542Z-210824T0700Z/
Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-
1142 AM EDT Mon Aug 23 2021 /1042 AM CDT Mon Aug 23 2021/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Bay and Gulf 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 7:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson	23 min
Aug 22, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	30 min
Aug 22, 8:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	42 min
Aug 22, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Jackson, Washington	35 min
Aug 22, 10:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	33 min
Aug 22, 10:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	31 min
Aug 22, 11:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	53 min
Aug 23, 12:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	32 min
Aug 23, 2:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	40 min
Aug 23, 3:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Washington	52 min
Aug 23, 3:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Washington	3 hr
Aug 23, 3:55 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Calhoun	50 min
Aug 23, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	48 min
Aug 23, 7:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	31 min
Aug 23, 7:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	30 min
Aug 23, 9:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	23 min
Aug 23, 2:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	37 min
Aug 23, 4:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	38 min
Aug 23, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	46 min

Nearby

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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.