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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 29, 2024, 12:14 PM EST for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 29, 2024, 12:14 PM EST (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2024, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 1891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
811 WHUS42 KTAE 291714 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1214 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 FLZ115-010900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0017.240229T1714Z-240301T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1214 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$ FLZ108-112-114-010900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-240301T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1214 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 /1114 AM CST Thu Feb 29 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
328 WHUS42 KTAE 010055 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 755 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 FLZ108-112-010900- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-240302T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 655 PM CST Thu Feb 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Friday night. * 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. && $$ FLZ114-010900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-240301T0900Z/ Coastal Gulf- 755 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 /655 PM CST Thu Feb 29 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST /3 AM CST/ FRIDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 4 AM EST /3 AM CST/ Friday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-010900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240301T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 755 PM EST Thu Feb 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EST FRIDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 4 AM EST Friday. * 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.