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Rip Current Statement 116, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 24, 2023, 1:47 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2023, 1:47 AM CDT (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2023, 2:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- 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 06:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
194 WHUS42 KTAE 240647 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 247 AM EDT Tue Oct 24 2023 FLZ108-112-114-115-251000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0116.231024T0647Z-231027T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 247 AM EDT Tue Oct 24 2023 /147 AM CDT Tue Oct 24 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Franklin county beaches as well as the south facing beaches of Gulf county. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * 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. && $$ DVD
2 follow-up statements
549 WHUS42 KTAE 250839 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 439 AM EDT Wed Oct 25 2023 FLZ108-112-114-115-260900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0116.000000T0000Z-231027T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 439 AM EDT Wed Oct 25 2023 /339 AM CDT Wed Oct 25 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Franklin county beaches as well as the south facing beaches of Gulf county. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
365 WHUS42 KTAE 260840 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 440 AM EDT Thu Oct 26 2023 FLZ108-112-114-115-270700- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0116.000000T0000Z-231027T0700Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 440 AM EDT Thu Oct 26 2023 /340 AM CDT Thu Oct 26 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Franklin county beaches as well as the south facing beaches of Gulf county. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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.