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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 27, 2024, 3:10 AM EDT for Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2024, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2024, 2:39 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
501 WHUS42 KJAX 270710 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 310 AM EDT Wed Mar 27 2024 GAZ154-166-280900- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0010.240327T0710Z-240328T0900Z/ Coastal Glynn-Coastal Camden- 310 AM EDT Wed Mar 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Southeast Georgia 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. && $$ FLZ124-125-133-138-280900- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-240328T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 310 AM EDT Wed Mar 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
594 WHUS42 KJAX 280639 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 239 AM EDT Thu Mar 28 2024 GAZ154-166-280745- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240328T0900Z/ Coastal Glynn-Coastal Camden- 239 AM EDT Thu Mar 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ124-125-133-138-290000- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-240329T0000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 239 AM EDT Thu Mar 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 1:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee | 30 min |
| Mar 27, 2:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clinch | 37 min |
| Mar 27, 2:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAX | Atkinson, Clinch | 33 min |
| Mar 27, 2:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Ware | 31 min |
| Mar 27, 4:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Coffee | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 5:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Jeff Davis | 19 min |
| Mar 27, 9:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Camden | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 10:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Camden | 23 min |
| Mar 27, 7:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clinch | 37 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.