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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 6, 2024, 1:30 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2024, 1:30 AM CST (07:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 17 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 07:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
277 WHUS42 KTAE 060730 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 230 AM EST Tue Feb 6 2024 FLZ108-112-114-115-061530- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0010.240206T0730Z-240207T0000Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 230 AM EST Tue Feb 6 2024 /130 AM CST Tue Feb 6 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
648 WHUS42 KTAE 061703 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1203 PM EST Tue Feb 6 2024 FLZ108-112-115-061815- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240207T0000Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Franklin- 1203 PM EST Tue Feb 6 2024 /1103 AM CST Tue Feb 6 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Morning observations via beach webcams and communication with local officials support an improving trend in conditions that will continue through the afternoon. $$ FLZ114-070000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240207T0000Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1203 PM EST Tue Feb 6 2024 /1103 AM CST Tue Feb 6 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County 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. && $$
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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.