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Rip Current Statement 31, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 18, 2022, 1:31 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2022, 1:31 AM CDT (06:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2022, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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 06:33 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 1742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
191 WHUS42 KTAE 180631 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 231 AM EDT Fri Mar 18 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-191100- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0031.220318T0631Z-220320T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 231 AM EDT Fri Mar 18 2022 /131 AM CDT Fri Mar 18 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
508 WHUS42 KTAE 181521 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1121 AM EDT Fri Mar 18 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-191530- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0031.000000T0000Z-220320T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1121 AM EDT Fri Mar 18 2022 /1021 AM CDT Fri Mar 18 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
679 WHUS42 KTAE 190748 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 348 AM EDT Sat Mar 19 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-191600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0031.000000T0000Z-220320T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 348 AM EDT Sat Mar 19 2022 /248 AM CDT Sat Mar 19 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 1:33 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 18, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 97 min |
| Mar 18, 1:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 2:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton | 2 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 54 min |
| Mar 18, 3:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Mar 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton, Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 69 min |
| Mar 18, 3:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 46 min |
| Mar 18, 4:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 59 min |
| Mar 18, 4:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton, Washington | 87 min |
| Mar 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 18, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more | 89 min |
| Mar 18, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 97 min | |
| Mar 18, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 33 min |
| Mar 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 37 min |
| Mar 18, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Liberty, Washington | 3 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.