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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 12, 2022, 3:16 AM EST for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2022, 3:16 AM EST (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2022, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
040 WHUS42 KTAE 120816 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 316 AM EST Wed Jan 12 2022 FLZ115-130500- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0006.220112T0816Z-220113T0500Z/ Coastal Franklin- 316 AM EST Wed Jan 12 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Fresh east-northeast breezes across Apalachee Bay will push enough surf onto the Franklin County beaches today for a high risk of rip currents. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
896 WHUS42 KTAE 121616 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1116 AM EST Wed Jan 12 2022 FLZ115-130500- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-220113T0500Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1116 AM EST Wed Jan 12 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.