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Rip Current Statement 51, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jun 30, 2025, 12:49 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jun 30, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2025, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 30, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 42 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 05:49 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, 5.8 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
337 WHUS42 KTAE 300549 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 149 AM EDT Mon Jun 30 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-301400- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0051.250630T1200Z-250701T0200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 149 AM EDT Mon Jun 30 2025 /1249 AM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT /7 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
355 WHUS42 KTAE 301602 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1202 PM EDT Mon Jun 30 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-010015- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0051.000000T0000Z-250701T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1202 PM EDT Mon Jun 30 2025 /1102 AM CDT Mon Jun 30 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
439 WHUS42 KTAE 010617 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 217 AM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-020600- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0051.000000T0000Z-250702T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 217 AM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025 /117 AM CDT Tue Jul 1 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
283 WHUS42 KTAE 011617 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1217 PM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025 FLZ108-112-011730- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0051.000000T0000Z-250702T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1117 AM CDT Tue Jul 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Surf Heights and the overall risk for rip currents have decreased across Walton and Bay County beaches. $$ FLZ114-115-020030- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0051.000000T0000Z-250702T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1217 PM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025 /1117 AM CDT Tue Jul 1 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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 30, 2:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 58 min | |
| Jun 30, 3:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 113 min | |
| Jun 30, 6:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 2 hr | |
| Jun 30, 6:59 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 88 min | |
| Jun 30, 7:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 57 min | |
| Jun 30, 9:05 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Jun 30, 9:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Jun 30, 9:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 67 min | |
| Jun 30, 9:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Franklin | 35 min |
| Jun 30, 10:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 93 min | |
| Jun 30, 11:57 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 93 min | |
| Jun 30, 2:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 47 min |
| Jun 30, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Leon, Wakulla | 49 min |
| Jun 30, 2:59 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Gadsden | 46 min |
| Jun 30, 3:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Leon | 45 min |
| Jun 30, 3:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Gadsden, Leon, Liberty | 2 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Liberty | 42 min |
| Jun 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton | 113 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.