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Rip Current Statement 65, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Aug 14, 2025, 4:10 AM CDT for Bay County, Gulf County, Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2025, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2025, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 432 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
803 WHUS42 KTAE 140910 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 510 AM EDT Thu Aug 14 2025 FLZ108-112-114-150600- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0064.000000T0000Z-250814T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0065.250814T0910Z-250815T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf- 510 AM EDT Thu Aug 14 2025 /410 AM CDT Thu Aug 14 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, and Gulf 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. && $$ FLZ115-141015- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0064.000000T0000Z-250814T0900Z/ Coastal Franklin- 510 AM EDT Thu Aug 14 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Wakulla | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 11:20 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 55 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:07 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Bay, Washington | 117 min |
| Aug 14, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Washington | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 3:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Walton, Washington | 88 min |
| Aug 14, 3:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 4:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 4:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | Madison, Taylor | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | Madison | 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.