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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 31, 2024, 2:15 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2024, 2:15 AM CST (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 31, 2024, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 20 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 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
520 WHUS42 KTAE 310815 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 315 AM EST Wed Jan 31 2024 FLZ108-311800- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.240131T0815Z-240131T1800Z/ South Walton- 215 AM CST Wed Jan 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * 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. && $$ FLZ112-114-010400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.240131T0815Z-240201T0400Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 315 AM EST Wed Jan 31 2024 /215 AM CST Wed Jan 31 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
132 WHUS42 KTAE 311713 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1213 PM EST Wed Jan 31 2024 FLZ108-010400- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-240201T0400Z/ South Walton- 1113 AM CST Wed Jan 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 10 PM CST 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. && $$ FLZ112-114-010400- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-240201T0400Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1213 PM EST Wed Jan 31 2024 /1113 AM CST Wed Jan 31 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EST /10 PM CST/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.