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Rip Current Statement 55, NWS Tallahassee, FL

June 12, 2023Bay County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 12, 2023, 11:06 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 2023, 11:06 AM CDT (16:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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.

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: 1408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted.

209 
WHUS42 KTAE 121606
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1206 PM EDT Mon Jun 12 2023

FLZ112-114-130600-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0055.230612T1606Z-230613T0600Z/
Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-
1206 PM EDT Mon Jun 12 2023 /1106 AM CDT Mon Jun 12 2023/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Bay and 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	49 min
Jun 12, 7:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Walton, Washington	39 min
Jun 12, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	29 min
Jun 12, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	61 min
Jun 12, 10:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	39 min
Jun 12, 10:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	42 min
Jun 12, 11:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jefferson, Madison, Taylor	31 min
Jun 12, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Holmes	39 min
Jun 12, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Washington	42 min
Jun 12, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	51 min
Jun 12, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty	34 min
Jun 12, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Jackson	50 min

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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.