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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 18, 2025, 1:32 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 4 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 18, 2025, 1:32 AM CST (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2025, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 4 days
- 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 07:35 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, 7.5 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
217 WHUS42 KTAE 180732 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 232 AM EST Sat Jan 18 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-182000- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0005.250118T0732Z-250119T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 232 AM EST Sat Jan 18 2025 /132 AM CST Sat Jan 18 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
678 WHUS42 KTAE 182053 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 353 PM EST Sat Jan 18 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-190900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250119T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 353 PM EST Sat Jan 18 2025 /253 PM CST Sat Jan 18 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
546 WHUS42 KTAE 190716 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 216 AM EST Sun Jan 19 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-201200- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250120T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 216 AM EST Sun Jan 19 2025 /116 AM CST Sun Jan 19 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Monday morning. * 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. && $$
754 WHUS42 KTAE 200825 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 325 AM EST Mon Jan 20 2025 FLZ108-200930- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250120T1200Z/ South Walton- 225 AM CST Mon Jan 20 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ112-114-115-210830- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250121T1100Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 325 AM EST Mon Jan 20 2025 /225 AM CST Mon Jan 20 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, 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. && $$
762 WHUS42 KTAE 210756 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 256 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2025 FLZ108-220900- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250122T1000Z/ South Walton- 156 AM CST Tue Jan 21 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ112-114-115-220900- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250122T1000Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 256 AM EST Tue Jan 21 2025 /156 AM CST Tue Jan 21 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 10:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Jackson | 29 min |
| Jan 18, 10:55 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 35 min |
| Jan 18, 11:05 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 85 min | |
| Jan 18, 11:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Bay | 31 min |
| Jan 18, 12:13 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 92 min | |
| Jan 18, 12:40 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Franklin | 35 min |
| Jan 18, 2:53 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 42 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.