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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 28, 2022, 1:57 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2022, 1:57 AM CST (07:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 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, 8.0 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
- 2108 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
421 WHUS42 KTAE 280757 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 257 AM EST Mon Feb 28 2022 FLZ112-114-010200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0025.220228T0757Z-220301T0200Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 257 AM EST Mon Feb 28 2022 /157 AM CST Mon Feb 28 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
162 WHUS42 KTAE 281721 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1221 PM EST Mon Feb 28 2022 FLZ112-281830- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-220301T0200Z/ Coastal Bay- 1121 AM CST Mon Feb 28 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR BAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ114-010200- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-220301T0200Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1221 PM EST Mon Feb 28 2022 /1121 AM CST Mon Feb 28 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EST /8 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 9 PM EST /8 PM CST/ 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.