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Rip Current Statement 95, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 14, 2025, 1:02 AM EST for Franklin County, Gulf County, Florida. It took effect at Dec 14, 2025, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2025, 1:02 AM EST (06:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 14, 2025, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
Counties Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:03 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 328 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
- 1296 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
205 WHUS42 KTAE 140602 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 102 AM EST Sun Dec 14 2025 FLZ114-150900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0095.251214T1500Z-251215T0900Z/ Coastal Gulf- 102 AM EST Sun Dec 14 2025 /1202 AM CST Sun Dec 14 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM EST /9 AM CST/ THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf County Beaches. * WHEN...From 10 AM EST /9 AM CST/ this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
137 WHUS42 KTAE 150531 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1231 AM EST Mon Dec 15 2025 FLZ115-160600- /O.EXB.KTAE.RP.S.0095.000000T0000Z-251216T0600Z/ Coastal Franklin- 1231 AM EST Mon Dec 15 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ FLZ114-160600- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0095.000000T0000Z-251216T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf- 1231 AM EST Mon Dec 15 2025 /1131 PM CST Sun Dec 14 2025/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Gulf 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 14, 12:23 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | Bay, Franklin, Gulf, Holmes, Walton | 33 hr |
| Dec 14, 12:46 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Walton, Washington | 36 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.