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Rip Current Statement 92, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 5, 20214 counties in Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 5, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 5, 2021, 10:20 AM CDT (15:20 UTC)
Expired: Oct 5, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
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 15:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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: 1029 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 780 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted.

030 
WHUS42 KTAE 051520
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1120 AM EDT Tue Oct 5 2021

FLZ108-112-114-115-052330-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0092.211005T1520Z-211006T0300Z/
South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
1120 AM EDT Tue Oct 5 2021 /1020 AM CDT Tue Oct 5 2021/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/
THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 5, 12:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		49 min
Oct 5, 12:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	61 min
Oct 5, 2:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		50 min
Oct 5, 3:23 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		37 min
Oct 5, 3:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Washington	34 min
Oct 5, 3:36 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Walton	3 hr
Oct 5, 3:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		46 min
Oct 5, 4:02 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		58 min
Oct 5, 4:08 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay, Washington	3 hr
Oct 5, 4:43 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	3 hr
Oct 5, 5:33 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	3 hr
Oct 5, 5:52 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 min
Oct 5, 7:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	116 min
Oct 5, 9:12 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Wakulla	2 hr
Oct 5, 12:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		58 min
Oct 5, 1:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		87 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.