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Rip Current Statement 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 2, 2023, 3:10 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2023, 3:10 AM CDT (08:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2023, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 22 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 08:14 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 247 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
986 WHUS42 KTAE 020810 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 410 AM EDT Sat Sep 2 2023 FLZ108-112-114-115-030600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0099.230902T0810Z-230903T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 410 AM EDT Sat Sep 2 2023 /310 AM CDT Sat Sep 2 2023/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 3:46 AM CDT | Flood Watch | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Walton, Washington | 9 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:20 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 4:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 92 min | |
| Sep 2, 5:36 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin | 55 min |
| Sep 2, 6:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 93 min | |
| Sep 2, 6:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | TAE | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 85 min | |
| Sep 2, 7:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 97 min | |
| Sep 2, 8:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Franklin | 64 min |
| Sep 2, 8:44 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes, Washington | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 86 min | |
| Sep 2, 10:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 90 min | |
| Sep 2, 5:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Sep 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 61 min | |
| Sep 2, 6:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 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.