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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Tallahassee, FL

February 25, 2025Bay County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 25, 2025, 2:55 AM CST for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 25, 2025, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 25, 2025, 2:55 AM CST (08:55 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 25, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
Expired
Feb 26, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 363 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 2025-02-25Temperature 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 2025-02-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 175 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
831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
594 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

108 
WHUS42 KTAE 250855
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
355 AM EST Tue Feb 25 2025

FLZ112-114-260600-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0012.250225T1800Z-250226T0600Z/
Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-
355 AM EST Tue Feb 25 2025 /255 AM CST Tue Feb 25 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS
AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Bay and Gulf County Beaches.

* WHEN...From 1 PM EST /noon CST/ this afternoon 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.

&&

$$

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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.