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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 20, 2025, 2:48 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida; Camden County, Glynn County, Georgia. It took effect at Mar 20, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2025, 2:48 AM EDT (06:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 20, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2025, 12:08 AM EDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Jacksonville, FL
Counties Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Camden County, GA, Glynn County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 2993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
642 WHUS42 KJAX 200648 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 248 AM EDT Thu Mar 20 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-GAZ154-166-210700- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0008.250320T0900Z-250321T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- Coastal Glynn-Coastal Camden- 248 AM EDT Thu Mar 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Southeast Georgia and 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
765 WHUS42 KJAX 210408 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 1208 AM EDT Fri Mar 21 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-GAZ154-166-210515- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250321T0900Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- Coastal Glynn-Coastal Camden- 1208 AM EDT Fri Mar 21 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jacksonville, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 11:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Hamilton | 53 min |
| Mar 20, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Columbia, Hamilton, Suwannee | 66 min |
| Mar 20, 1:12 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | JAX | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 8 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 9:27 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | JAX | Brantley | 5 days |
| Mar 20, 10:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Atkinson, Coffee, Jeff Davis | 67 min |
| Mar 20, 11:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | JAX | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Jeff Davis | 60 min |
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.