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Rip Current Statement 79, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 12, 2022, 4:53 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 2022, 4:53 AM CDT (09:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 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 09:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 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
- 1587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1157 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
859 WHUS42 KTAE 120953 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 553 AM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022 FLZ108-112-114-115-140300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0079.220712T0953Z-220714T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 553 AM EDT Tue Jul 12 2022 /453 AM CDT Tue Jul 12 2022/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...It is possible that the high risk continues beyond Wednesday, but the forecast is contingent on the evolution of a tropical system over the northern Gulf of Mexico. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 7:21 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Lafayette, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 119 min |
| Jul 12, 6:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 88 min | |
| Jul 12, 7:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Jul 12, 7:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Jul 12, 9:54 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Jul 12, 11:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Jul 12, 11:34 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 56 min | |
| Jul 12, 11:46 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 20 min |
| Jul 12, 12:06 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Bay | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 12:16 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 14 hr | |
| Jul 12, 12:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 23 min |
| Jul 12, 1:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun | 30 min |
| Jul 12, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Jackson, Washington | 14 min |
| Jul 12, 5:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Jackson | 2 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.