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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Jan 30, 2025, 2:02 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Jan 30, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 30, 2025, 2:02 AM CST (08:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 30, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 60 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 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 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
- 2074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
562 WHUS42 KTAE 300802 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 302 AM EST Thu Jan 30 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-311030- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0006.250131T0000Z-250202T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 302 AM EST Thu Jan 30 2025 /202 AM CST Thu Jan 30 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From this evening 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
561 WHUS42 KTAE 310853 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 353 AM EST Fri Jan 31 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-011000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-250202T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 353 AM EST Fri Jan 31 2025 /253 AM CST Fri Jan 31 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
093 WHUS42 KTAE 011148 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 648 AM EST Sat Feb 1 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-021200- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-250202T1200Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 648 AM EST Sat Feb 1 2025 /548 AM CST Sat Feb 1 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 8:21 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 14 hr |
| Jan 29, 8:26 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 13 hr | |
| Jan 30, 2:08 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 13 hr | |
| Jan 30, 3:48 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 114 min | |
| Jan 30, 5:42 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 6 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.