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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 15, 2022, 5:36 AM EST for Franklin County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 15, 2022, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2022, 5:36 AM EST (10:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2022, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
303 WHUS42 KTAE 151036 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 536 AM EST Tue Feb 15 2022 FLZ115-160000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0020.220215T1700Z-220216T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 536 AM EST Tue Feb 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM NOON EST TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From noon EST today 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
405 WHUS42 KTAE 151648 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1148 AM EST Tue Feb 15 2022 FLZ115-160000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0020.220215T1700Z-220216T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1148 AM EST Tue Feb 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From noon EST today through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.