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Rip Current Statement 30, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 29, 2025, 12:38 PM EST for Duval County, Flagler County, Saint Johns County, Florida. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2025, 12:38 PM EST (17:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 29, 2025, 10:19 PM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
283 WHUS42 KJAX 291738 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 1238 PM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 FLZ125-138-233-333-300900- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0030.251229T1738Z-251230T0900Z/ Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler-Northeast Coastal St. Johns- Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 1238 PM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Duval, Coastal Flagler, Northeast Coastal St. Johns and Southeast Coastal St. Johns Counties. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
185 WHUS42 KJAX 300319 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 1019 PM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 FLZ125-138-233-333-300430- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-251230T0900Z/ Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler-Northeast Coastal St. Johns- Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 1019 PM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 29, 8:03 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | JAX | Alachua, Flagler, Gilchrist, Marion, Putnam | 57 min |
| Dec 29, 10:44 AM EST | Freeze Watch | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 29, 10:44 AM EST | Freeze Warning | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau | 21 hr |
| Dec 29, 12:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker | 64 min |
| Dec 29, 1:20 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 55 min | |
| Dec 29, 2:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Baker, Columbia, Nassau | 52 min |
| Dec 29, 2:37 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 53 min | |
| Dec 29, 3:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Clay | 35 min |
| Dec 29, 3:41 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | JAX | 64 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.