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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 8, 2022, 1:05 PM EDT for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2022, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
County Flagler County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 242 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
003 WHUS42 KJAX 081705 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 105 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 FLZ133-138-090000- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0026.220608T1705Z-220609T0000Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 105 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. Lifeguards have reported 15 rescues along the St Johns county coast today. * WHERE...Coastal St. Johns and Coastal Flagler Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
148 WHUS42 KJAX 082338 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 738 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 FLZ133-138-090045- /O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-220609T0000Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 738 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 12:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Gilchrist | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 1:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Citrus | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 1:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Levy | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clay | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Saint Johns | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Marion | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Alachua | 33 min |
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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.