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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 19, 2022, 11:01 AM CST for Bay County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2022, 11:01 AM CST (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2022, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3003 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
045 WHUS42 KTAE 191701 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1201 PM EST Wed Jan 19 2022 FLZ112-210000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0010.220119T1701Z-220121T0000Z/ Coastal Bay- 1101 AM CST Wed Jan 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
687 WHUS42 KTAE 200740 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 240 AM EST Thu Jan 20 2022 FLZ108-201545- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0010.220120T1200Z-220121T0000Z/ South Walton- 140 AM CST Thu Jan 20 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ112-201545- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-220121T0000Z/ Coastal Bay- 140 AM CST Thu Jan 20 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
390 WHUS42 KTAE 201937 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 237 PM EST Thu Jan 20 2022 FLZ108-202045- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-220121T0000Z/ South Walton- 137 PM CST Thu Jan 20 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ112-210000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-220121T0000Z/ Coastal Bay- 137 PM CST Thu Jan 20 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
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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.