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Rip Current Statement 88, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 1, 2025, 10:26 AM CST for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 1, 2025, 10:26 AM CST (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 3, 2025, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 41 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 16:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 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
- 2348 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
441 WHUS42 KTAE 011626 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1126 AM EST Mon Dec 1 2025 FLZ108-020030- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0088.251201T1626Z-251203T1200Z/ South Walton- 1026 AM CST Mon Dec 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Tuesday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
883 WHUS42 KTAE 020720 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 220 AM EST Tue Dec 2 2025 FLZ112-114-115-030900- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0088.000000T0000Z-251203T0900Z/ Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 220 AM EST Tue Dec 2 2025 /120 AM CST Tue Dec 2 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ108-030900- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0088.000000T0000Z-251203T0900Z/ South Walton- 120 AM CST Tue Dec 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 12:48 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 41 hr |
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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.