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Rip Current Statement 77, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Oct 18, 2025, 12:59 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 2025, 12:59 AM CDT (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 20, 2025, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Bay County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 360 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
- 2098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
595 WHUS42 KTAE 180559 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 159 AM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 FLZ114-115-190600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0077.251018T0559Z-251020T0500Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 159 AM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 /1259 AM CDT Sat Oct 18 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Southern Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Sunday night. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
157 WHUS42 KTAE 181521 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1121 AM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 FLZ108-112-200500- /O.EXA.KTAE.RP.S.0077.000000T0000Z-251020T0500Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1021 AM CDT Sat Oct 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton and Bay County Beaches. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ114-115-200500- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0077.000000T0000Z-251020T0500Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1121 AM EDT Sat Oct 18 2025 /1021 AM CDT Sat Oct 18 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Sunday night. * 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. && $$ DVD
955 WHUS42 KTAE 190527 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 127 AM EDT Sun Oct 19 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-200500- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0077.000000T0000Z-251020T0500Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 127 AM EDT Sun Oct 19 2025 /1227 AM CDT Sun Oct 19 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.