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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 21, 2025, 1:27 AM EST for Duval County, Flagler County, Nassau County, Florida. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 21, 2025, 1:27 AM EST (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 1672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 125 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -561 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
622 WHUS42 KJAX 210627 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 127 AM EST Fri Feb 21 2025 FLZ124-125-133-138-220900- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0003.250221T0627Z-250222T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 127 AM EST Fri Feb 21 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents and rough surf. Breakers 4 to 6 feet. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
095 WHUS42 KJAX 220622 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 122 AM EST Sat Feb 22 2025 FLZ124-125-133-138-230000- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250223T0000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal St. Johns-Coastal Flagler- 122 AM EST Sat Feb 22 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Northeast Florida Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 1:17 PM EST | Frost Advisory | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee, Union | 19 hr |
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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.