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Rip Current Statement 48, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 10, 2025, 1:17 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2025, 1:17 AM CDT (06:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 06:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 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
- 810 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted.
045 WHUS42 KTAE 100617 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 217 AM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 FLZ108-112-110600- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0047.000000T0000Z-250610T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0048.250610T0617Z-250611T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 117 AM CDT Tue Jun 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$ FLZ114-110600- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0046.000000T0000Z-250610T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0048.250610T0617Z-250611T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 217 AM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 /117 AM CDT Tue Jun 10 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-110600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0048.250610T0617Z-250611T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 217 AM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
926 WHUS42 KTAE 101605 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1205 PM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 FLZ108-112-101715- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-250611T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1105 AM CDT Tue Jun 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Surf heights and rip risk have decreased just enough to end the high risk designation for rip currents along Bay and Walton County beaches. Surf heights will continue a decreasing trend through Wednesday. $$ FLZ114-115-110600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-250611T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1205 PM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 /1105 AM CDT Tue Jun 10 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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 9, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 54 min | |
| Jun 9, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 91 min | |
| Jun 9, 10:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Jun 9, 11:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 25 min |
| Jun 9, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 10, 12:02 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Walton | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 12:12 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 10, 12:39 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Jun 10, 12:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Liberty | 40 min |
| Jun 10, 1:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Calhoun, Liberty | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Calhoun, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 80 min |
| Jun 10, 2:16 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gulf | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 2:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gulf, Liberty | 87 min |
| Jun 10, 2:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Gadsden | 69 min |
| Jun 10, 2:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Franklin, Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla | 87 min |
| Jun 10, 3:16 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 3 hr | |
| Jun 10, 3:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson | 73 min |
| Jun 10, 4:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 52 min |
| Jun 10, 5:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 10, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Lafayette, Madison, Taylor | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 2:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton | 118 min |
| Jun 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 45 min |
| Jun 10, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 24 min |
| Jun 10, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Jun 10, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Jefferson, Leon | 25 min |
| Jun 10, 6:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jefferson | 43 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.