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Rip Current Statement 76, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 10, 2025, 1:45 AM EDT for Franklin County, Florida. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2025, 1:45 AM EDT (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2025, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 05:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KNIP), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 633 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
665 WHUS42 KTAE 100545 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 145 AM EDT Fri Oct 10 2025 FLZ115-101745- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0076.251010T0545Z-251012T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 145 AM EDT Fri Oct 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Breezy northeast winds running parallel to St George Island will make for an active surf zone capable of producing strong and frequent rip currents the next couple days. 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
852 WHUS42 KTAE 101513 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1113 AM EDT Fri Oct 10 2025 FLZ115-111515- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0076.000000T0000Z-251012T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1113 AM EDT Fri Oct 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Breezy northeast winds running parallel to St George Island will make for an active surf zone capable of producing strong and frequent rip currents the next couple days. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
315 WHUS42 KTAE 110530 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 130 AM EDT Sat Oct 11 2025 FLZ115-120000- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0076.000000T0000Z-251012T0000Z/ Coastal Franklin- 130 AM EDT Sat Oct 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
909 WHUS42 KTAE 111745 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 145 PM EDT Sat Oct 11 2025 FLZ115-120145- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0076.000000T0000Z-251012T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 145 PM EDT Sat Oct 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.