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Rip Current Statement 30, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 21, 2025, 1:22 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Apr 21, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 21, 2025, 1:22 AM CDT (06:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 21, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 21, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
939 WHUS42 KTAE 210622 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 222 AM EDT Mon Apr 21 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-211430- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0030.250421T1200Z-250422T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 222 AM EDT Mon Apr 21 2025 /122 AM CDT Mon Apr 21 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
501 WHUS42 KTAE 211532 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1132 AM EDT Mon Apr 21 2025 FLZ115-211645- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-250422T0300Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1132 AM EDT Mon Apr 21 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ108-112-114-220300- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-250422T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 1132 AM EDT Mon Apr 21 2025 /1032 AM CDT Mon Apr 21 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Until 11 PM EDT /10 PM CDT/ 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.