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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 3, 2023Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 3, 2023, 4:02 AM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 3, 2023, 4:02 AM CST (10:02 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2023, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 14 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 10:05 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, 10.0 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

730 
WHUS42 KTAE 031002
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
502 AM EST Fri Feb 3 2023

FLZ114-040000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0011.230203T1002Z-230204T0000Z/
Coastal Gulf-
502 AM EST Fri Feb 3 2023 /402 AM CST Fri Feb 3 2023/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Gulf 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 2, 10:32 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		118 min
Feb 3, 12:22 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		113 min
Feb 3, 1:07 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	23 min
Feb 3, 1:30 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin, Wakulla	45 min
Feb 3, 2:14 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		91 min
Feb 3, 2:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	44 min
Feb 3, 2:59 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	46 min
Feb 3, 3:22 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	TAE		83 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.