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Rip Current Statement 97, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 6, 2024, 1:00 AM CST for Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 6, 2024, 1:00 AM CST (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 7, 2024, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 119 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 523 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 700 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
140 WHUS42 KTAE 060700 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 200 AM EST Fri Dec 6 2024 FLZ112-114-115-062000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0097.241206T0700Z-241207T0600Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 200 AM EST Fri Dec 6 2024 /100 AM CST Fri Dec 6 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, Franklin, South Facing Gulf County Beaches and St Joseph State Park. * WHEN...Through late 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
599 WHUS42 KTAE 061711 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1211 PM EST Fri Dec 6 2024 FLZ112-061815- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0097.000000T0000Z-241207T0600Z/ Coastal Bay- 1111 AM CST Fri Dec 6 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ114-115-070600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0097.000000T0000Z-241207T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1211 PM EST Fri Dec 6 2024 /1111 AM CST Fri Dec 6 2024/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late 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. && $$
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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.