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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 11, 2025, 10:22 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2025, 10:22 AM CST (16:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 291 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
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 457 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 516 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
858 WHUS42 KTAE 111622 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1122 AM EST Tue Feb 11 2025 FLZ108-120900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0007.250211T1622Z-250212T0900Z/ South Walton- 1022 AM CST Tue Feb 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
616 WHUS42 KTAE 120906 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 406 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ108-121715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250212T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.250212T1200Z-250213T0700Z/ South Walton- 306 AM CST Wed Feb 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ112-114-115-121715- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.250212T1200Z-250213T0700Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 406 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 /306 AM CST Wed Feb 12 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Bay, Gulf, and 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 2:08 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Wakulla, Walton and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:13 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 50 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.