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Rip Current Statement 62, NWS Tallahassee, FL

August 3, 2025Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 3, 2025, 11:58 PM CDT for Bay County, Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Aug 4, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2025, 11:58 PM CDT (04:58 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 4, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
Expired: Aug 5, 2025, 3:00 AM CDT
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 344 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 855 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

807 
WHUS42 KTAE 040458
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1258 AM EDT Mon Aug 4 2025

FLZ112-114-115-050800-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0062.250804T0800Z-250805T0800Z/
Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
1258 AM EDT Mon Aug 4 2025 /1158 PM CDT Sun Aug 3 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM EDT /3 AM CDT/ EARLY
THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Bay, Franklin, and the State Park and South-facing Gulf
  County Beaches.

* WHEN...From 4 AM EDT /3 AM CDT/ early this morning 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
Aug 3, 11:57 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		2 hr
Aug 4, 12:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	27 min
Aug 4, 12:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Wakulla	3 hr
Aug 4, 12:35 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	25 min
Aug 4, 12:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Franklin	38 min
Aug 4, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		38 min
Aug 4, 1:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	23 min
Aug 4, 1:49 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		116 min
Aug 4, 4:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	31 min
Aug 4, 4:23 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay, Gulf	3 hr
Aug 4, 5:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		109 min
Aug 4, 5:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		107 min
Aug 4, 6:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Wakulla	34 min
Aug 4, 6:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	40 min
Aug 4, 7:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	41 min
Aug 4, 7:26 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		64 min
Aug 4, 8:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	27 min
Aug 4, 8:36 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		54 min
Aug 4, 8:57 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Madison	33 min
Aug 4, 9:31 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		44 min
Aug 4, 9:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gulf	29 min
Aug 4, 10:48 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		55 min
Aug 4, 11:18 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		62 min
Aug 4, 12:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		87 min
Aug 4, 12:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	TAE	Bay	118 min
Aug 4, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Liberty	37 min
Aug 4, 1:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Calhoun	35 min
Aug 4, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	TAE		40 min
Aug 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Gadsden	30 min
Aug 4, 2:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	37 min
Aug 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	TAE	Leon	45 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.