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Rip Current Statement 93, NWS Tallahassee, FL
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 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 7, 8:40 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 6 hr |
| Dec 7, 8:41 PM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 6 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.