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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 1, 2025, 2:01 AM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2025, 2:01 AM EDT (06:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2025, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 328 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
- 1123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1002 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
496 WHUS42 KTAE 010601 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 201 AM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 FLZ114-115-011815- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-250401T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0024.250401T0601Z-250402T0200Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 201 AM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 /101 AM CDT Tue Apr 1 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through 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. && $$ FLZ108-112-010715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0023.000000T0000Z-250401T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 101 AM CDT Tue Apr 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED FOR BAY AND WALTON COUNTY BEACHES... $$
1 follow-up statement
184 WHUS42 KTAE 011611 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1211 PM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 FLZ115-011715- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-250402T0200Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1211 PM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Morning observations from webcams at the St. George lighthouse show conditions more representative of a moderate rip current risk. $$ FLZ114-020015- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-250402T0200Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1211 PM EDT Tue Apr 1 2025 /1111 AM CDT Tue Apr 1 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT /9 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:06 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 10:11 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 29 hr |
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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.