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Rip Current Statement 139, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 20, 2023, 1:54 AM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2023, 1:54 AM EST (06:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 21, 2023, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 328 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
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
624 WHUS42 KTAE 200654 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 154 AM EST Wed Dec 20 2023 FLZ115-201900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0139.231220T0654Z-231221T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 154 AM EST Wed Dec 20 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
563 WHUS42 KTAE 201644 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1144 AM EST Wed Dec 20 2023 FLZ114-210600- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0139.000000T0000Z-231221T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1144 AM EST Wed Dec 20 2023 /1044 AM CST Wed Dec 20 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-210600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0139.000000T0000Z-231221T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1144 AM EST Wed Dec 20 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * 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.