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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Tallahassee, FL

March 2, 2025Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 2, 2025, 10:11 AM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 2, 2025, 10:11 AM CST (16:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 2, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 371 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-03-02Temperature 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, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2025-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
774 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

842 
WHUS42 KTAE 021611
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1111 AM EST Sun Mar 2 2025

FLZ114-030000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0014.250302T1611Z-250303T0000Z/
Coastal Gulf-
1111 AM EST Sun Mar 2 2025 /1011 AM CST Sun Mar 2 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ THIS
EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...St. Joseph Peninsula State Park and west-facing Gulf 
  County Beaches.

* WHEN...Until 7 PM EST /6 PM CST/ 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.

&&

$$

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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.