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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 20, 2022, 1:54 AM EST for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 20, 2022, 3:00 AM EST. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2022, 1:54 AM EST (06:54 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 20, 2022, 3:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2022, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 2623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
739 WHUS42 KJAX 200654 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 154 AM EST Sun Feb 20 2022 FLZ124-125-133-138-212100- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0008.220220T0800Z-220221T2100Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 154 AM EST Sun Feb 20 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through Monday afternoon. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
832 WHUS42 KJAX 212007 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 307 PM EST Mon Feb 21 2022 FLZ124-125-133-138-220900- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-220222T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 307 PM EST Mon Feb 21 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.