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Rip Current Statement 35, NWS Tallahassee, FL

April 29, 2025Franklin County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 29, 2025, 2:23 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It took effect at Apr 29, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2025, 2:23 AM EDT (06:23 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 29, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 29, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Franklin County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 68 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -28 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
68 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
960 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

708 
WHUS42 KTAE 290623
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
223 AM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025

FLZ115-300000-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0035.250429T1400Z-250430T0000Z/
Coastal Franklin-
223 AM EDT Tue Apr 29 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Franklin County Beaches.

* WHEN...From 10 AM EDT 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 29, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEWashington29 min
Apr 29, 3:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEBay27 min
Apr 29, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEBay31 min
Apr 29, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEWashington31 min
Apr 29, 4:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTAEBay, Calhoun, Walton, Washington53 min

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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.