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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Nov 7, 2021, 2:06 PM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 2021, 2:06 PM EST (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2021, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 748 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
827 WHUS42 KTBW 071906 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 206 PM EST Sun Nov 7 2021 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-080000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0028.211107T1906Z-211108T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 206 PM EST Sun Nov 7 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EST 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
339 WHUS42 KTBW 072344 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 644 PM EST Sun Nov 7 2021 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-081200- /O.EXT.KTBW.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-211108T1200Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 644 PM EST Sun Nov 7 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
747 WHUS42 KTBW 080857 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 357 AM EST Mon Nov 8 2021 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-090000- /O.EXT.KTBW.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-211109T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 357 AM EST Mon Nov 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * 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. && $$
865 WHUS42 KTBW 081415 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 915 AM EST Mon Nov 8 2021 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-081515- /O.CAN.KTBW.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-211109T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 915 AM EST Mon Nov 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Swells and seas on the Gulf waters have subsided, ending the high risk of rip currents. $$
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.