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Rip Current Statement 116, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 28, 2022, 1:59 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 28, 2022, 1:59 AM CDT (06:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2022, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:02 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 2474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
128 WHUS42 KTAE 280659 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 259 AM EDT Wed Sep 28 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-290700- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0116.220928T0659Z-220929T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 259 AM EDT Wed Sep 28 2022 /159 AM CDT Wed Sep 28 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and 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. && $$ DVD
1 follow-up statement
708 WHUS42 KTAE 290604 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 204 AM EDT Thu Sep 29 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-300700- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0116.000000T0000Z-220930T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 204 AM EDT Thu Sep 29 2022 /104 AM CDT Thu Sep 29 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ DVD
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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.