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Rip Current Statement 99, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 13, 2024, 1:32 AM EST for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2024, 1:32 AM EST (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 15, 2024, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 49 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 352 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
- 2016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
052 WHUS42 KTAE 130632 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 132 AM EST Fri Dec 13 2024 FLZ115-150000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0099.241213T0632Z-241215T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 132 AM EST Fri Dec 13 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$ DVD
2 follow-up statements
582 WHUS42 KTAE 140726 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 226 AM EST Sat Dec 14 2024 FLZ108-150800- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0099.000000T0000Z-241215T0800Z/ South Walton- 126 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-150800- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0099.000000T0000Z-241215T0800Z/ Coastal Franklin- 226 AM EST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$ DVD
551 WHUS42 KTAE 141628 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1128 AM EST Sat Dec 14 2024 FLZ108-141730- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0099.000000T0000Z-241215T0800Z/ South Walton- 1028 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ115-150800- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0099.000000T0000Z-241215T0800Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1128 AM EST Sat Dec 14 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 13, 2:21 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 37 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.