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Rip Current Statement 129, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 29, 2022, 3:36 AM EDT for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 29, 2022, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 352 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
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
792 WHUS42 KTAE 290736 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 336 AM EDT Sat Oct 29 2022 FLZ115-300000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0129.221029T0736Z-221030T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 336 AM EDT Sat Oct 29 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
694 WHUS42 KTAE 291604 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1204 PM EDT Sat Oct 29 2022 FLZ108-300000- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0129.000000T0000Z-221030T0000Z/ South Walton- 1104 AM CDT Sat Oct 29 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-300000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0129.000000T0000Z-221030T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1204 PM EDT Sat Oct 29 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through 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. && $$
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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.