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Rip Current Statement 23, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2022, 3:28 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2022, 3:28 AM CST (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2022, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 23 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 09:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 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
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
176 WHUS42 KTAE 220928 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 428 AM EST Tue Feb 22 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-230800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0023.220222T0928Z-220223T0800Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 428 AM EST Tue Feb 22 2022 /328 AM CST Tue Feb 22 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
191 WHUS42 KTAE 221618 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1118 AM EST Tue Feb 22 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-230800- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-220223T0800Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1118 AM EST Tue Feb 22 2022 /1018 AM CST Tue Feb 22 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 11:27 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 10 hr |
| Feb 21, 11:27 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 10 hr |
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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.