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Rip Current Statement 38, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 27, 2024, 12:50 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 5 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2024, 12:50 AM CDT (05:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2024, 3:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 days
- 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 05:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
416 WHUS42 KTAE 270550 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 150 AM EDT Sat Apr 27 2024 FLZ108-112-114-115-300800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0038.240427T0550Z-240430T0800Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 150 AM EDT Sat Apr 27 2024 /1250 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Monday 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. && $$ DVD
2 follow-up statements
935 WHUS42 KTAE 300752 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 352 AM EDT Tue Apr 30 2024 FLZ108-112-114-115-020800- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0038.000000T0000Z-240502T0800Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 352 AM EDT Tue Apr 30 2024 /252 AM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Wednesday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
692 WHUS42 KTAE 020802 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 402 AM EDT Thu May 2 2024 FLZ108-112-114-115-021615- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0038.000000T0000Z-240502T0800Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0039.240502T1300Z-240503T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 402 AM EDT Thu May 2 2024 /302 AM CDT Thu May 2 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 9 AM EDT /8 AM CDT/ 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 2:11 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 35 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.