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Rip Current Statement 61, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 25, 2024Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 25, 2024, 10:30 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2024, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 348 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 810 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

347 
WHUS42 KTAE 251530
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1130 AM EDT Thu Jul 25 2024

FLZ114-260200-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0061.240725T1530Z-240726T0200Z/
Coastal Gulf-
1130 AM EDT Thu Jul 25 2024 /1030 AM CDT Thu Jul 25 2024/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT /9 PM CDT/
THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Southern West-Facing beaches of Gulf County.

* WHEN...Until 10 PM EDT /9 PM CDT/ 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
Jul 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington	2 hr
Jul 24, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	36 min
Jul 24, 10:09 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	2 hr
Jul 25, 6:15 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	TAE	Walton	3 hr
Jul 25, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	46 min
Jul 25, 2:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	42 min
Jul 25, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	34 min
Jul 25, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Walton	35 min
Jul 25, 2:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Washington	34 min
Jul 25, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	37 min
Jul 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	34 min
Jul 25, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	56 min
Jul 25, 4:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	42 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Leon	62 min
Jul 25, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	45 min
Jul 25, 5:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Liberty, Wakulla	112 min
Jul 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Leon, Wakulla	65 min
Jul 25, 5:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	60 min

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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.