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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 4, 2023Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 4, 2023, 5:03 AM EST for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 4, 2023, 5:03 AM EST (10:03 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 38 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 10:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

359 
WHUS42 KTAE 041003
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
503 AM EST Sat Feb 4 2023

FLZ115-041815-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0012.230204T1003Z-230206T0000Z/
Coastal Franklin-
503 AM EST Sat Feb 4 2023

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

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Franklin County Beaches.

* WHEN...Through Sunday 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.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

026 
WHUS42 KTAE 050830
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
330 AM EST Sun Feb 5 2023

FLZ115-051630-
/O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-230206T0000Z/
Coastal Franklin-
330 AM EST Sun Feb 5 2023

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

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Franklin County Beaches.

* WHEN...Through Sunday 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 4, 3:10 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		14 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.