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Rip Current Statement 53, NWS Tallahassee, FL

July 3, 2025Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jul 3, 2025, 12:28 AM CDT for Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Jul 3, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 3, 2025, 12:28 AM CDT (05:28 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 3, 2025, 9:00 AM CDT
Expired
Jul 3, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:30 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 348 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 763 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
763 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
12 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

027 
WHUS42 KTAE 030528
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
128 AM EDT Thu Jul 3 2025

FLZ114-031330-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0053.250703T1400Z-250704T0300Z/
Coastal Gulf-
128 AM EDT Thu Jul 3 2025 /1228 AM CDT Thu Jul 3 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...Gulf 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 8:22 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE53 min
Jul 2, 10:11 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE2 hr
Jul 2, 10:47 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE58 min
Jul 2, 11:01 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE119 min
Jul 3, 2:54 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningTAE96 min
Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTAEDixie2 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.