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Rip Current Statement 42, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 18, 2022Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 18, 2022, 11:12 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2022, 11:12 AM CDT (16:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2022, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 285 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

060 
WHUS42 KTAE 181612
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1212 PM EDT Mon Apr 18 2022

FLZ114-190900-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0042.220418T1612Z-220419T0900Z/
Coastal Gulf-
1212 PM EDT Mon Apr 18 2022 /1112 AM CDT Mon Apr 18 2022/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...West Facing 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 17, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		84 min
Apr 18, 12:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	28 min
Apr 18, 12:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Walton, Washington	34 min
Apr 18, 12:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	65 min
Apr 18, 1:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		89 min
Apr 18, 1:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty, Wakulla	64 min
Apr 18, 2:00 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		35 hr
Apr 18, 2:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	52 min
Apr 18, 2:45 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		90 min
Apr 18, 2:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Wakulla	38 min

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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.