Rip Current in Florida, May 28, 2006

Name: Rip Current in Florida, May 28, 2006
Start: 2006-05-28T15:00
End: 2006-05-28T15:00
Location: Florida

May 28, 2006 · NWS TAE · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 2:33 PM EST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:33 PM EST, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
333 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

.SYNOPSIS...
VAPOR IMAGERY AND UPPER AIR OBSERVATIONS SHOW STRONG RIDGING OVER
THE EASTERN U.S. THIS AFTERNOON. A SURGE OF VERY DRY AIR IS MOVING
RAPIDLY DOWN THE CAROLINAS. AT THE SURFACE...A WEAK BACK DOOR FRONT
IS LOCATED ACROSS SOUTH GEORGIA...AND IS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHWARD.
AS FORECAST BY THE NUMERICAL GUIDANCE...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS EASTERN PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA AND NORTH FLORIDA...WHERE THERE IS A BAND OF DEEP LAYER
MOISTURE AND SURFACE CONVERGENCE. THERE IS EXCELLENT AGREEMENT
AMONG THE GUIDANCE THAT SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO OUR
AREA BETWEEN 00 UTC AND 06 UTC TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE STORMS
COULD BRIEFLY APPROACH SEVERE LIMITS...AS THE AIRMASS IS
MODERATELY UNSTABLE. HOWEVER...THE DEEP LAYER VERTICAL WIND SHEAR
IS RATHER WEAK...WHICH MAKES ROTATING UPDRAFTS UNLIKELY. THE MAIN
THREAT WILL BE HAIL OF MARBLE TO DIME SIZE...AND WIND GUSTS FROM
30 TO 50 KT.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
(TONIGHT-WEDNESDAY) THE AFOREMENTIONED DRY SURGE ALOFT WILL MOVE
OVER OUR AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY...THEN GRADUALLY SHIFT EAST OF
OUR AREA ON WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL ALMOST COMPLETELY SUPPRESS DEEP MOIST
CONVECTION. THE 1000-700 MB MEAN LAYER FLOW WILL GENERALLY BE OUT
OF THE NORTHEAST...WHICH IS A WARM FLOW FOR US SINCE IT TENDS TO
INHIBIT THE BIG BEND SEA BREEZE. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE
AVERAGE DURING THE AFTERNOONS...AND THE NAM AND GFS MOS
TEMPERATURES AND POP ARE VERY CLOSE. FORTUNATELY THE RELATIVE
HUMIDITY WILL BE A LITTLE LOWER DURING THIS TIME...PREVENTING THE
HEAT INDEX FROM REACHING 100 DEGREES IN MOST AREAS.

.LONG TERM...
(THURSDAY-SUNDAY) MOISTURE AND CHANCES FOR RAIN GRADUALLY
INCREASE THROUGH FRIDAY AHEAD OF THE NEXT COLD FRONT WHICH THE GFS
NOW SHOWS PRESSING DOWN INTO OUR REGION FROM THE NORTH ON FRIDAY.
THIS FRONT MAY PUSH THROUGH THE CWA OR STALL OVER NORTH FLORIDA ON
SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOUT AVERAGE THROUGH THE PERIOD.

&&

.MARINE...
WINDS AND SEAS WILL REMAIN LOW. THE WEST TO SOUTHWEST FLOW THAT
HAS PERSISTED ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS WILL
CHANGE TO MOSTLY OFFSHORE FLOW AS THE TROUGH PASSES THROUGH OUR
AREA TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THE OFFSHORE FLOW WILL BE WEAK ENOUGH TO
ALLOW LATE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZES TO DEVELOP NEAR THE COAST.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY MAY BRIEFLY DROP NEAR 35 PERCENT MONDAY AND
TUESDAY AFTERNOONS...BUT NOT LONG ENOUGH TO WARRANT ANY WATCHES OR
WARNINGS.

&&

.AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON
HOURS...WITH STEADILY INCREASING CLOUDS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING MAINLY NEAR THE COAST AS THE AFTERNOON SEA BREEZE PUSHES
VERY SLOWLY INLAND. FROM EARLY EVENING AND INTO THE MORNING HOURS ON
MONDAY...A WEAK COLD WILL PUSH SOUTHWEST WARD ACROSS SOUTHERN GEORGIA
AND NORTHERN FLORIDA...PRODUCING AN INCREASE IN SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY FROM EAST TO WEST ACROSS THE AREA. MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS
LIKELY IN THESE STORMS AS THEY PASS...AS REFLECTED IN THE TAFS OVERNIGHT.
EXPECT SOME PATCHY MVFR VSBY AND LIFR CIGS TO DEVELOP BY DAYBREAK...ESPECIALLY
IN AREAS THAT RECEIVE RAINFALL OVERNIGHT.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TALLAHASSEE  69  95  67  95 /  40  10  10  10
PANAMA CITY  75  90  75  90 /  40  10  10  10
DOTHAN       73  94  72  96 /  40  10  10  10
ALBANY       73  94  69  96 /  30  10  10  10
VALDOSTA     68  93  65  91 /  30  10   0  10
CROSS CITY   67  93  64  93 /  40   0   0  10

&&

.TAE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...NONE.
GA...NONE.
FL...NONE.
&&

AVIATION...DUVAL
LONG TERM...BARRY
REST OF DISCUSSION...FOURNIER

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 2:59 PM EST, 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
359 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

FLZ029-282045-
LAFAYETTE-
359 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2006

...A SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IS IN EFFECT FOR LAFAYETTE COUNTY IN
NORTH FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

AT 353 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTH OF MAYO...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10
MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL...AND WINDS 30 TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND IS ALSO
PRODUCING NEARLY CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

38-GODSEY

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Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Bay

When: May 28, 3:00 PM EST
Where: Bay forecast zone
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: BROADCAST MEDIA
Coordinates: 30.238, -85.633 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A three-year-old girl swimming at St Andrews State Park near Panama City Beach drowned in a rip current. The girl was floating on a raft with an 18-year-old girl when the rough current flipped the raft and both girls were pulled into the channel. The older girl was rescued by a Good Samaritan. Three U.S. Navy divers joined the Coast Guard in the rescue effort for the little girl. Reported by the Associated Press.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

Event	Date	Age	Sex	Where	Kind
Rip Current, Bay	2006-05-28	3	Female	In Water	Direct

What these are

Rip Current: A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Florida in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Florida, May 2006

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5511350.