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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 7, 2025, 9:01 AM CST for Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2025, 9:01 AM CST (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 2025, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 344 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 135 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -427 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
194 WHUS42 KTAE 071501 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1001 AM EST Tue Jan 7 2025 FLZ112-114-115-071800- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-250107T1500Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0003.250107T1501Z-250107T1800Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1001 AM EST Tue Jan 7 2025 /901 AM CST Tue Jan 7 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST /NOON CST/ THIS AFTERNOON... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 1 PM EST /noon CST/ this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS..Residual surf and swell from strong post- frontal northerly breezes are likely to maintain a high risk into the afternoon. 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. && $$ FLZ108-071800- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-250107T1800Z/ South Walton- 901 AM CST Tue Jan 7 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Until noon CST today. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2:27 PM CST | Cold Weather Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more | 18 hr |
Nearby
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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.