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Rip Current Statement 114, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 19, 2022, 3:27 AM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 19, 2022, 8:42 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2022, 3:27 AM EDT (07:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 19, 2022, 8:42 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 20, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 328 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
- 402 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
518 WHUS42 KTAE 190727 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 327 AM EDT Mon Sep 19 2022 FLZ114-115-191530- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0114.220919T1500Z-220920T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 327 AM EDT Mon Sep 19 2022 /227 AM CDT Mon Sep 19 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...State Park Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 11 AM EDT this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
299 WHUS42 KTAE 191242 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 842 AM EDT Mon Sep 19 2022 FLZ114-191345- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0114.220919T1500Z-220920T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 842 AM EDT Mon Sep 19 2022 /742 AM CDT Mon Sep 19 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ115-200600- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0114.220919T1242Z-220920T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 842 AM EDT Mon Sep 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County 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.