Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 1, 2024, 2:06 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2024, 2:06 AM CST (08:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2024, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 363 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
- 1747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
001 WHUS42 KTAE 010806 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 306 AM EST Mon Jan 1 2024 FLZ112-114-020600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0001.240101T0806Z-240102T0600Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 306 AM EST Mon Jan 1 2024 /206 AM CST Mon Jan 1 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
247 WHUS42 KTAE 010823 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 323 AM EST Mon Jan 1 2024 FLZ112-114-020600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240102T0600Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 323 AM EST Mon Jan 1 2024 /223 AM CST Mon Jan 1 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches and the Gulf County State Park and West Facing Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 5:38 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 3 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:29 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 24 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.