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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 18, 2023, 3:14 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2023, 3:14 AM CDT (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- 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 08:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 558 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted.
712 WHUS42 KTAE 180814 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 414 AM EDT Sat Mar 18 2023 FLZ108-112-114-115-190200- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0026.230318T0814Z-230319T0200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 414 AM EDT Sat Mar 18 2023 /314 AM CDT Sat Mar 18 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton | 27 min |
| Mar 17, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Bay, Walton | 35 min |
| Mar 17, 7:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 14 min |
| Mar 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 8:04 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Mar 17, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 30 min |
| Mar 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 34 min |
| Mar 17, 9:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Mar 17, 9:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 9:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 50 min |
| Mar 17, 10:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 113 min | |
| Mar 17, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 12:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 35 min |
| Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | TAE | Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 24 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.