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Rip Current Statement 75, NWS Tallahassee, FL

October 8, 2025Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 8, 2025, 2:09 AM EDT for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It was in force for 24 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2025, 2:09 AM EDT (06:09 UTC)
Expired
Oct 9, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 328 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 97 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -47 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
97 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

364 
WHUS42 KTAE 080609
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
209 AM EDT Wed Oct 8 2025

FLZ114-115-090530-
/O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0074.000000T0000Z-251008T0600Z/
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0075.251008T0609Z-251009T0600Z/
Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin-
209 AM EDT Wed Oct 8 2025 /109 AM CDT Wed Oct 8 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT...
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...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.

&&

$$

FLZ108-080715-
/O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0074.000000T0000Z-251008T0600Z/
South Walton-
109 AM CDT Wed Oct 8 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

$$

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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.