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Rip Current Statement 89, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 25, 2022Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 25, 2022, 4:08 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It took effect at Jul 25, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2022, 4:08 AM EDT (08:08 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 25, 2022, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 14 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 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 308 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: 1673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

156 
WHUS42 KTAE 250808
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
408 AM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022

FLZ115-251615-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0089.220725T1300Z-220726T0300Z/
Coastal Franklin-
408 AM EDT Mon Jul 25 2022

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Franklin County Beaches.

* WHEN...From 9 AM EDT this morning 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 11:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Jul 25, 1:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Taylor	113 min
Jul 25, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		17 min
Jul 25, 1:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Dixie, Taylor	2 hr
Jul 25, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	32 min
Jul 25, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	43 min
Jul 25, 7:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	62 min
Jul 25, 7:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		89 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.