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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Feb 12, 2025, 3:06 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It took effect at Feb 12, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 66 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2025, 3:06 AM CST (09:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2025, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 66 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 09:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
616 WHUS42 KTAE 120906 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 406 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ108-121715- /O.EXP.KTAE.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-250212T0900Z/ /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.250212T1200Z-250213T0700Z/ South Walton- 306 AM CST Wed Feb 12 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Walton 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. && $$ FLZ112-114-115-121715- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0008.250212T1200Z-250213T0700Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 406 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 /306 AM CST Wed Feb 12 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
3 follow-up statements
495 WHUS42 KTAE 121647 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1147 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-130900- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250214T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1147 AM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 /1047 AM CST Wed Feb 12 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Thursday 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. && $$
852 WHUS42 KTAE 130038 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 738 PM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-140900- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250214T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 738 PM EST Wed Feb 12 2025 /638 PM CST Wed Feb 12 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
525 WHUS42 KTAE 140647 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 147 AM EST Fri Feb 14 2025 FLZ108-112-114-115-150300- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-250215T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 147 AM EST Fri Feb 14 2025 /1247 AM CST Fri Feb 14 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW 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.