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Rip Current Statement 73, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 2, 2025, 1:02 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It took effect at Oct 2, 2025, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 2, 2025, 1:02 AM EDT (05:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 2, 2025, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2025, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 21 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 05:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
145 WHUS42 KTAE 020502 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 102 AM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025 FLZ115-021815- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0073.251002T0700Z-251003T0400Z/ Coastal Franklin- 102 AM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The high surf conditions are expected to continue into and through the weekend, while expanding westward to include other beaches along the Emerald Coast. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
398 WHUS42 KTAE 021802 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 202 PM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025 FLZ115-030400- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0073.000000T0000Z-251003T0400Z/ Coastal Franklin- 202 PM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Until midnight EDT tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.