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Rip Current Statement 67, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 2, 2025, 2:02 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2025, 2:02 AM EDT (06:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2025, 1:58 AM EDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Franklin County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
132 WHUS42 KTAE 020602 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 202 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 FLZ115-021800- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0066.000000T0000Z-250902T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0067.250902T0602Z-250903T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 202 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$ FLZ108-020715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0066.000000T0000Z-250902T0600Z/ South Walton- 102 AM CDT Tue Sep 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... The high risk of rip currents has expired. $$
3 follow-up statements
219 WHUS42 KTAE 020605 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 205 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 FLZ115-021800- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0067.000000T0000Z-250903T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 205 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. && $$
310 WHUS42 KTAE 021530 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1130 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 FLZ115-030600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0067.000000T0000Z-250903T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1130 AM EDT Tue Sep 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
492 WHUS42 KTAE 030558 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 158 AM EDT Wed Sep 3 2025 FLZ115-030700- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0067.000000T0000Z-250903T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 158 AM EDT Wed Sep 3 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Rip current risk is cancelled. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 8:42 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 13 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.