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Rip Current Statement 115, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 24, 2022, 3:34 AM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 24, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2022, 3:34 AM EDT (07:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2022, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 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 07:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
484 WHUS42 KTAE 240734 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 334 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 FLZ115-250800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0115.220924T0800Z-220926T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 334 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
155 WHUS42 KTAE 241548 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1148 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 FLZ114-250300- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0115.000000T0000Z-220925T0300Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1148 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 /1048 AM CDT Sat Sep 24 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-250300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0115.000000T0000Z-220926T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1148 AM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
802 WHUS42 KTAE 250333 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1133 PM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 FLZ115-251200- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0115.000000T0000Z-220925T1200Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1133 PM EDT Sat Sep 24 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT SUNDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 8 AM EDT Sunday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.