Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2025

Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 11, 2025Bay County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 11, 2025, 3:40 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 11, 2025, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 11, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 18 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 08:40 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, 8.7 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

921 
WHUS42 KTAE 110840
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
440 AM EDT Fri Apr 11 2025

FLZ112-114-120300-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0026.250411T0900Z-250412T0300Z/
Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-
440 AM EDT Fri Apr 11 2025 /340 AM CDT Fri Apr 11 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Bay and 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 11, 2:01 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	TAE		29 hr
Apr 11, 2:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	29 min
Apr 11, 3:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	28 min
Apr 11, 3:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson, Madison	36 min
Apr 11, 3:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	31 min
Apr 11, 3:46 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		96 min
Apr 11, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Madison, Taylor	56 min
Apr 11, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	TAE	Wakulla	38 min
Apr 11, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		63 min
Apr 11, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Jefferson	28 min
Apr 11, 4:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	30 min
Apr 11, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TAE	Taylor	30 min
Apr 11, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	25 min
Apr 11, 5:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Taylor	31 min
Apr 11, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Lafayette	29 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2025 Every rip current statement in 2025

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.