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Rip Current Statement 93, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 6, 2021, 1:58 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2021, 1:58 AM CDT (06:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2021, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 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 07:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 7.0 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted.
553 WHUS42 KTAE 060658 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 258 AM EDT Wed Oct 6 2021 FLZ108-112-114-115-070400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0093.211006T0658Z-211007T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 258 AM EDT Wed Oct 6 2021 /158 AM CDT Wed Oct 6 2021/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through 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 6, 3:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 36 min | |
| Oct 6, 4:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 57 min | |
| Oct 6, 5:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Oct 6, 5:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 42 min |
| Oct 6, 6:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 8 min |
| Oct 6, 7:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Wakulla | 102 min |
| Oct 6, 8:09 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 66 min | |
| Oct 6, 9:14 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 2 hr |
| Oct 6, 10:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Wakulla | 61 hr |
| Oct 6, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Oct 6, 2:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 59 min | |
| Oct 6, 3:09 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Madison | 2 hr |
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.