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Rip Current Statement 62, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 30, 2024Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 30, 2024, 10:31 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 2024, 10:31 AM CDT (15:31 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 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 15:33 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: 1151 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 838 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

232 
WHUS42 KTAE 301531
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1131 AM EDT Tue Jul 30 2024

FLZ114-310000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0062.240730T1531Z-240731T0000Z/
Coastal Gulf-
1131 AM EDT Tue Jul 30 2024 /1031 AM CDT Tue Jul 30 2024/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT /7 PM CDT/ THIS
EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...West facing Gulf County Beaches and St Joesph State Park.

* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT /7 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 30, 2:09 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	17 hr
Jul 30, 6:22 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		53 min
Jul 30, 8:00 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Jul 30, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		43 min
Jul 30, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	46 min
Jul 30, 11:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	44 min
Jul 30, 12:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	48 min
Jul 30, 12:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Franklin, Liberty, Wakulla	34 min
Jul 30, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla	59 min
Jul 30, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Bay	59 min
Jul 30, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		97 min
Jul 30, 2:12 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	TAE	Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 10 more	29 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.