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Rip Current Statement 70, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Sep 11, 2025, 2:11 AM EDT for Franklin County, Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Sep 11, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2025, 2:11 AM EDT (06:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 11, 2025, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2025, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 06:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
173 WHUS42 KTAE 110611 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 211 AM EDT Thu Sep 11 2025 FLZ115-111415- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0070.250911T1200Z-250912T0200Z/ Coastal Franklin- 211 AM EDT Thu Sep 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
093 WHUS42 KTAE 111513 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1113 AM EDT Thu Sep 11 2025 FLZ108-120200- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0070.000000T0000Z-250912T0200Z/ South Walton- 1013 AM CDT Thu Sep 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ115-120200- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0070.000000T0000Z-250912T0200Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1113 AM EDT Thu Sep 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT 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.