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Rip Current Statement 73, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 30, 2024, 10:29 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2024, 10:29 AM CDT (15:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2024, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 424 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1156 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
110 WHUS42 KTAE 301529 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1129 AM EDT Fri Aug 30 2024 FLZ108-114-310400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0073.240830T1529Z-240831T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Gulf- 1129 AM EDT Fri Aug 30 2024 /1029 AM CDT Fri Aug 30 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and South Facing Gulf 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
173 WHUS42 KTAE 301822 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 222 PM EDT Fri Aug 30 2024 FLZ112-310400- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0073.000000T0000Z-240831T0400Z/ Coastal Bay- 122 PM CDT Fri Aug 30 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-114-310400- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0073.000000T0000Z-240831T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Gulf- 222 PM EDT Fri Aug 30 2024 /122 PM CDT Fri Aug 30 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT /11 PM CDT/ TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and South Facing Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until midnight EDT /11 PM CDT/ 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Aug 29, 8:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 43 min |
| Aug 29, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 37 min |
| Aug 29, 8:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Aug 29, 9:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 58 min |
| Aug 30, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 55 min |
| Aug 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 52 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.