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Rip Current Statement 95, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 5, 2022, 12:12 PM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2022, 12:12 PM EDT (16:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2022, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 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 16:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1758 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 759 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
846 WHUS42 KTAE 051612 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1212 PM EDT Fri Aug 5 2022 FLZ115-052000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0095.220805T1612Z-220805T2000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1212 PM EDT Fri Aug 5 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 4 PM EDT this afternoon. * 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 114 min | |
| Aug 5, 10:16 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 89 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 1:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 34 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 32 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 43 min |
| Aug 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gulf | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 48 min | |
| Aug 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 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.