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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at May 15, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT for 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2024, 4:00 AM EDT (08:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 1867 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
The text
As transmitted.
745 WHUS42 KTBW 150800 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 400 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-170000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0017.240515T0800Z-240517T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 400 AM EDT Wed May 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
336 WHUS42 KTBW 160801 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 401 AM EDT Thu May 16 2024 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-170000- /O.CON.KTBW.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240517T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 401 AM EDT Thu May 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 4:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Sumter | 37 min |
| May 15, 4:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | Sumter | 24 min |
| May 15, 7:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Hillsborough | 30 min |
| May 15, 7:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Manatee | 25 min |
| May 15, 9:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 43 min |
| May 15, 10:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Polk | 48 min |
| May 15, 10:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 54 min | |
| May 15, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | Highlands | 45 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.