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Rip Current Statement 27, NWS Jacksonville, FL

December 9, 20254 counties in Florida

NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 9, 2025, 12:28 AM EST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 9, 2025, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 9, 2025, 12:28 AM EST (05:28 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 9, 2025, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 10, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
In force
21 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 05:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-12-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-12-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -75 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

843 
WHUS42 KJAX 090528
CFWJAX

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Jacksonville FL
1228 AM EST Tue Dec 9 2025

FLZ124-125-138-233-333-100600-
/O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0027.251209T0900Z-251210T0600Z/
Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler-
Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns-
1228 AM EST Tue Dec 9 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM EST EARLY THIS
MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and rough surf expected.

* WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches.

* WHEN...From 4 AM EST early 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 9, 8:00 AM ESTFrost AdvisoryJAXBaker, Columbia, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee, Union24 hr

Nearby

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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.