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Rip Current Statement 84, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 13, 2021, 1:08 AM CDT for Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 2021, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2021, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 510 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
597 WHUS42 KTAE 130608 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 208 AM EDT Mon Sep 13 2021 FLZ108-140600- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0083.000000T0000Z-210913T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0084.210913T0608Z-210914T0600Z/ South Walton- 108 AM CDT Mon Sep 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton 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. && $$ FLZ112-114-130715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0083.000000T0000Z-210913T0600Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 208 AM EDT Mon Sep 13 2021 /108 AM CDT Mon Sep 13 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
1 follow-up statement
750 WHUS42 KTAE 131601 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1201 PM EDT Mon Sep 13 2021 FLZ114-140600- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0084.000000T0000Z-210914T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1201 PM EDT Mon Sep 13 2021 /1101 AM CDT Mon Sep 13 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$ FLZ108-140600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0084.000000T0000Z-210914T0600Z/ South Walton- 1101 AM CDT Mon Sep 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.