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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 14, 2023, 12:38 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2023, 12:38 AM CST (06:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2023, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
408 WHUS42 KTAE 140638 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 138 AM EST Sat Jan 14 2023 FLZ114-150600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0004.230114T0638Z-230115T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 138 AM EST Sat Jan 14 2023 /1238 AM CST Sat Jan 14 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...West facing and State Park areas of the 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. && $$ DVD
1 follow-up statement
000 WHUS42 KTAE 141710 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1210 PM EST Sat Jan 14 2023 FLZ108-112-150600- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-230115T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1110 AM CST Sat Jan 14 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ114-150600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-230115T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1210 PM EST Sat Jan 14 2023 /1110 AM CST Sat Jan 14 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...West facing and State Park areas of the 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. && $$
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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.