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Rip Current Statement 50, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 28, 2025, 12:35 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 45 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 2025, 12:35 AM CDT (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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 05:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 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
- 2426 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1251 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
515 WHUS42 KTAE 280535 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 135 AM EDT Sat Jun 28 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-281345- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0050.250628T0535Z-250629T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 135 AM EDT Sat Jun 28 2025 /1235 AM CDT Sat Jun 28 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
978 WHUS42 KTAE 290729 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 329 AM EDT Sun Jun 29 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-291530- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0050.000000T0000Z-250630T0300Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 329 AM EDT Sun Jun 29 2025 /229 AM CDT Sun Jun 29 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 65 min | |
| Jun 28, 6:56 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 64 min | |
| Jun 28, 10:42 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 93 min | |
| Jun 28, 11:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 43 min |
| Jun 28, 12:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 41 min |
| Jun 28, 1:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 43 min | |
| Jun 28, 2:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay | 119 min |
| Jun 28, 2:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Jackson | 114 min |
| Jun 28, 2:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 2:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 60 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.