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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Jacksonville, FL
NWS Jacksonville, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 29, 2025, 1:49 AM EDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2025, 1:49 AM EDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2025, 1:43 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 05:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
597 WHUS42 KJAX 290549 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 149 AM EDT Sat Mar 29 2025 FLZ138-233-333-301000- /O.NEW.KJAX.RP.S.0009.250329T0549Z-250330T1000Z/ Coastal Flagler-Northeast Coastal St. Johns- Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 149 AM EDT Sat Mar 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
299 WHUS42 KJAX 300610 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 210 AM EDT Sun Mar 30 2025 FLZ124-125-311000- /O.EXB.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-250331T1000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval- 210 AM EDT Sun Mar 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Nassau and Coastal Duval Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ138-233-333-311000- /O.EXT.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-250331T1000Z/ Coastal Flagler-Northeast Coastal St. Johns- Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 210 AM EDT Sun Mar 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$
742 WHUS42 KJAX 310543 CFWJAX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Jacksonville FL 143 AM EDT Mon Mar 31 2025 FLZ124-125-138-233-333-310645- /O.CAN.KJAX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-250331T1000Z/ Coastal Nassau-Coastal Duval-Coastal Flagler- Northeast Coastal St. Johns-Southeast Coastal St. Johns- 143 AM EDT Mon Mar 31 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
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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.