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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 19, 2025, 2:41 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 19, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2025, 2:41 AM EDT (06:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 19, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
002 WHUS42 KJAX 190641 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 241 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-200900- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0013.250419T1200Z-250420T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 241 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
364 WHUS42 KJAX 200639 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 239 AM EDT Sun Apr 20 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-210400- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250421T0400Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 239 AM EDT Sun Apr 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
422 WHUS42 KJAX 210359 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 1159 PM EDT Sun Apr 20 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-210500- /O.EXP.KJAX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-250421T0400Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 1159 PM EDT Sun Apr 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... $$
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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.