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Rip Current Statement 71, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 23, 2024, 2:43 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2024, 2:43 AM EDT (06:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2024, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 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 06:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 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
- 542 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
777 WHUS42 KTAE 230643 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 243 AM EDT Fri Aug 23 2024 FLZ115-240100- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0071.240823T0643Z-240824T0100Z/ Coastal Franklin- 243 AM EDT Fri Aug 23 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 90 min | |
| Aug 22, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 90 min | |
| Aug 22, 10:04 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 14 hr | |
| Aug 22, 11:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 91 min | |
| Aug 23, 2:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 97 min | |
| Aug 23, 4:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 95 min | |
| Aug 23, 6:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Aug 23, 11:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 85 min | |
| Aug 23, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 63 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.