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Rip Current Statement 34, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 26, 2022, 1:50 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2022, 1:50 AM CDT (06:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2022, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 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 06:52 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, 6.8 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
- 2021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
994 WHUS42 KTAE 260650 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 250 AM EDT Sat Mar 26 2022 FLZ108-112-114-270400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0034.220326T0650Z-220327T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 250 AM EDT Sat Mar 26 2022 /150 AM CDT Sat Mar 26 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
561 WHUS42 KTAE 261524 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1124 AM EDT Sat Mar 26 2022 FLZ115-262330- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0034.000000T0000Z-220327T0500Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1124 AM EDT Sat Mar 26 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-112-114-262330- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0034.000000T0000Z-220327T0500Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1124 AM EDT Sat Mar 26 2022 /1024 AM CDT Sat Mar 26 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Gulf 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. && $$
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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.