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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 16, 2025, 5:25 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2025, 5:25 AM EST (10:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 36 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 10:23 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, 10.4 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1396 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
826 WHUS42 KTBW 161025 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 525 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-170000- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0005.250216T1200Z-250217T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 525 AM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
242 WHUS42 KTBW 162110 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 410 PM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-180000- /O.EXT.KTBW.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250218T0000Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 410 PM EST Sun Feb 16 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:00 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 11 hr | |
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 60 min | |
| Feb 16, 1:52 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 20 hr | |
| Feb 16, 2:19 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | TBW | 56 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.