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Rip Current Statement 93, NWS Tallahassee, FL

December 7, 2025Gulf County, Florida

NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 7, 2025, 11:57 PM CST for Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 8, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 7, 2025, 11:57 PM CST (05:57 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 8, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
Expired
Dec 8, 2025, 11:00 PM CST
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Tallahassee, FL

County Gulf County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 348 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 2025-12-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2025-12-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -109 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

054 
WHUS42 KTAE 080557
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
1257 AM EST Mon Dec 8 2025

FLZ114-090500-
/O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0093.251208T1200Z-251209T0500Z/
Coastal Gulf-
1257 AM EST Mon Dec 8 2025 /1157 PM CST Sun Dec 7 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS
MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...West-facing Gulf County Beaches.

* WHEN...From 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ this morning through this 
  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.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
922 
WHUS42 KTAE 080608 CCA
CFWTAE

Coastal Hazard Message...CORRECTED
National Weather Service Tallahassee FL
108 AM EST Mon Dec 8 2025

FLZ114-090500-
/O.COR.KTAE.RP.S.0093.251208T1200Z-251209T0500Z/
Coastal Gulf-
108 AM EST Mon Dec 8 2025 /1208 AM CST Mon Dec 8 2025/

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ THIS
MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Gulf County State Park Beaches.

* WHEN...From 7 AM EST /6 AM CST/ this morning through this 
  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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 7, 8:40 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryTAEBay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington6 hr
Dec 7, 8:41 PM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryTAE6 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.