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Rip Current Statement 85, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 8, 2023, 10:25 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2023, 10:25 AM CDT (15:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 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 15:28 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 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 3142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted.
435 WHUS42 KTAE 081525 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1125 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 FLZ108-112-114-090300- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0085.230808T1525Z-230809T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1125 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 /1025 AM CDT Tue Aug 8 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ 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 7, 7:19 PM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:07 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Watch | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more | 17 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 28 min | |
| Aug 8, 1:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 1:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 26 min |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 24 min |
| Aug 8, 2:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 43 min |
| Aug 8, 2:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Aug 8, 3:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Holmes | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jackson | 69 min |
Nearby
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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.