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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 22, 2022, 8:01 AM EST for Flagler County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2022, 8:01 AM EST (13:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 11 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 13:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
372 WHUS42 KJAX 221301 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 801 AM EST Sat Jan 22 2022 FLZ133-138-230000- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0004.220122T1301Z-220123T0000Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 801 AM EST Sat Jan 22 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal St. Johns and Coastal Flagler 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
392 WHUS42 KJAX 230004 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 704 PM EST Sat Jan 22 2022 FLZ133-138-230115- /O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-220123T0000Z/ Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 704 PM EST Sat Jan 22 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 2:59 PM EST | Freeze Watch | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Flagler and 6 more | 22 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:59 PM EST | Freeze Warning | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Gilchrist and 4 more | 18 hr |
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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.