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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 25, 2022, 4:29 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 25, 2022, 10:23 AM CST. It was in force for 37 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2022, 4:29 AM CST (10:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2022, 10:23 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2022, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 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 10:28 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, 10.5 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
- 1864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
000 WHUS42 KTAE 251029 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 529 AM EST Tue Jan 25 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-261200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0012.220125T2100Z-220126T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 529 AM EST Tue Jan 25 2022 /429 AM CST Tue Jan 25 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM EST /3 PM CST/ THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 4 PM EST /3 PM CST/ this afternoon through Wednesday morning. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
160 WHUS42 KTAE 251623 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1123 AM EST Tue Jan 25 2022 FLZ108-112-260400- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0012.220125T2100Z-220127T0500Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1023 AM CST Tue Jan 25 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 3 PM CST this afternoon through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ114-115-260400- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0012.220125T1623Z-220127T0500Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1123 AM EST Tue Jan 25 2022 /1023 AM CST Tue Jan 25 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
231 WHUS42 KTAE 261707 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1207 PM EST Wed Jan 26 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-270500- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-220127T0500Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1207 PM EST Wed Jan 26 2022 /1107 AM CST Wed Jan 26 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EST /11 PM CST/ TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.