Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 15, 2024, 11:03 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 62 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2024, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2024, 12:41 AM CDT
- In force
- 62 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 16:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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
- 451 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.4
The text
As transmitted.
142 WHUS42 KTAE 151603 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1203 PM EDT Fri Mar 15 2024 FLZ108-112-160900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0025.240315T1603Z-240316T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1103 AM CDT Fri Mar 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
935 WHUS42 KTAE 160715 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 315 AM EDT Sat Mar 16 2024 FLZ114-115-161515- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240317T0900Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 315 AM EDT Sat Mar 16 2024 /215 AM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-112-161515- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240317T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 215 AM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW 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. && $$
285 WHUS42 KTAE 161559 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1159 AM EDT Sat Mar 16 2024 FLZ108-112-114-115-170900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240317T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1159 AM EDT Sat Mar 16 2024 /1059 AM CDT Sat Mar 16 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
223 WHUS42 KTAE 170726 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 326 AM EDT Sun Mar 17 2024 FLZ115-170830- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240317T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 326 AM EDT Sun Mar 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Winds will be offshore for most of the day with surf generally less than 2 feet. Thus, there is a moderate risk of rip currents at Franklin County beaches. $$ FLZ108-112-114-171530- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240318T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 326 AM EDT Sun Mar 17 2024 /226 AM CDT Sun Mar 17 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and the St. Joseph Peninsula State Park beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
707 WHUS42 KTAE 180541 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 141 AM EDT Mon Mar 18 2024 FLZ112-114-190900- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240318T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0026.240318T1700Z-240319T1600Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 141 AM EDT Mon Mar 18 2024 /1241 AM CDT Mon Mar 18 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EDT /NOON CDT/ THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...From 1 PM EDT /noon CDT/ this afternoon through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Increasing northwest winds this afternoon will support development of a high risk of rip currents along the southwest- and west-facing beaches of Gulf and Bay Counties. 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. && $$ FLZ108-180645- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-240318T0900Z/ South Walton- 1241 AM CDT Mon Mar 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Offshore buoy observations indicating 1-foot wave heights do not support a continuation of the high rip current risk for Walton County beaches. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 8:24 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Liberty | 17 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.