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Rip Current Statement 44, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 5, 2025, 4:03 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jun 5, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2025, 4:03 AM CDT (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 5, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2025, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 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 09:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1041 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
000 WHUS42 KTAE 050903 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 503 AM EDT Thu Jun 5 2025 FLZ108-114-115-051715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0043.000000T0000Z-250605T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0044.250605T1400Z-250606T0400Z/ South Walton-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 503 AM EDT Thu Jun 5 2025 /403 AM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EDT /9 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 10 AM EDT /9 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. && $$ FLZ112-051715- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0044.250605T1400Z-250606T0400Z/ Coastal Bay- 403 AM CDT Thu Jun 5 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...From 9 AM CDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 7:13 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Holmes | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 1:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 49 min | |
| Jun 5, 1:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Dixie | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Jun 5, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 4:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Leon | 2 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.