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Rip Current Statement 83, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 5, 2023Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 5, 2023, 1:26 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Aug 5, 2023, 5:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 5, 2023, 1:26 AM CDT (06:26 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 5, 2023, 5:00 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 5, 2023, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 348 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: 872 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -65 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1044 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.5

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The text

As transmitted.

234 
WHUS42 KTAE 050626
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
226 AM EDT Sat Aug 5 2023

FLZ114-060030-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0083.230805T1000Z-230806T0200Z/
Coastal Gulf-
226 AM EDT Sat Aug 5 2023 /126 AM CDT Sat Aug 5 2023/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM EDT /5 AM CDT/ THIS
MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Saint Joseph Peninsula State Park Beaches.

* WHEN...From 6 AM EDT /5 AM CDT/ this morning 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
Aug 4, 7:02 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		90 min
Aug 4, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Bay, Walton, Washington	38 min
Aug 4, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		117 min
Aug 4, 7:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun, Liberty	54 min
Aug 4, 8:14 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		3 hr
Aug 4, 8:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	82 min
Aug 4, 9:10 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		95 min
Aug 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		60 min
Aug 4, 11:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		65 min
Aug 5, 1:50 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Walton, Washington	14 hr
Aug 5, 7:56 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		94 min
Aug 5, 8:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		92 min
Aug 5, 9:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Dixie	38 min
Aug 5, 10:11 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Aug 5, 11:16 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		59 min
Aug 5, 12:16 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		119 min
Aug 5, 12:36 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		114 min
Aug 5, 12:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	64 min
Aug 5, 12:48 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		87 min
Aug 5, 1:04 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		86 min
Aug 5, 1:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Aug 5, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	56 min
Aug 5, 1:56 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Walton	2 hr
Aug 5, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Walton	43 min
Aug 5, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	53 min
Aug 5, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		94 min
Aug 5, 2:31 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	28 hr
Aug 5, 2:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	53 min
Aug 5, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Aug 5, 3:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	54 min
Aug 5, 3:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Aug 5, 3:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Washington	117 min
Aug 5, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	55 min
Aug 5, 3:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	TAE	Bay	65 min
Aug 5, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay, Washington	59 min
Aug 5, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	66 min
Aug 5, 4:29 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Washington	2 hr
Aug 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon	52 min
Aug 5, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	57 min
Aug 5, 4:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		56 min
Aug 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla	51 min
Aug 5, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	78 min
Aug 5, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		48 min
Aug 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	56 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.