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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 23, 2024, 2:51 AM EST for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 23, 2024, 9:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2024, 2:51 AM EST (07:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 23, 2024, 9:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2024, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 2932 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
754 WHUS42 KJAX 230751 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 251 AM EST Fri Feb 23 2024 FLZ124-125-133-138-240400- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0005.240223T1400Z-240224T0400Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 251 AM EST Fri Feb 23 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM EST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...From 9 AM EST 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
073 WHUS42 KJAX 240015 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 715 PM EST Fri Feb 23 2024 FLZ124-125-133-138-240115- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-240224T0400Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 715 PM EST Fri Feb 23 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2:53 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | JAX | 24 hr | |
| Feb 23, 10:56 AM EST | Wind Advisory | JAX | Clay, Duval, Flagler, Marion, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 11:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Hamilton, Suwannee | 34 min |
| Feb 23, 11:52 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Suwannee | 23 min |
| Feb 23, 12:20 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Nassau, Suwannee | 25 min |
| Feb 23, 12:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 61 min | |
| Feb 23, 12:45 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Nassau, Suwannee | 30 min |
| Feb 23, 1:04 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 56 min | |
| Feb 23, 1:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Suwannee | 31 min |
| Feb 23, 1:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 16 min |
| Feb 23, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 14 min |
| Feb 23, 2:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Duval | 25 min |
| Feb 23, 2:08 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 97 min | |
| Feb 23, 2:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 44 min |
| Feb 23, 3:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Hamilton | 35 min |
| Feb 23, 3:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker | 33 min |
| Feb 23, 4:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 4:28 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Nassau | 47 min |
| Feb 23, 4:44 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia | 31 min |
| Feb 23, 4:59 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Nassau | 31 min |
| Feb 23, 5:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia | 26 min |
| Feb 23, 5:20 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 55 min | |
| Feb 23, 5:27 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval | 33 min |
| Feb 23, 5:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Duval, Union | 47 min |
| Feb 23, 6:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clay | 30 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.