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Rip Current Statement 69, NWS Tallahassee, FL

September 10, 2025Franklin County, Walton County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 10, 2025, 2:16 AM EDT for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 10, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 2025, 2:16 AM EDT (06:16 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 10, 2025, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 10, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Franklin County, FL, Walton County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:19 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 352 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-09-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2025-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -17 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1735 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

573 
WHUS42 KTAE 100616
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
216 AM EDT Wed Sep 10 2025

FLZ108-115-101430-
/O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0068.000000T0000Z-250910T0600Z/
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0069.250910T1400Z-250911T0300Z/
South Walton-Coastal Franklin-
216 AM EDT Wed Sep 10 2025 /116 AM CDT Wed Sep 10 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...Walton and Franklin 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.

&&

$$

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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.