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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Tampa Bay, FL
NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued this rip current statement at Dec 29, 2025, 1:57 AM EST for 6 counties in Florida. It took effect at Dec 29, 2025, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 29, 2025, 1:57 AM EST (06:57 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 29, 2025, 9:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Tampa Bay, FL
Counties Charlotte County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lee County, FL, Manatee County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Sarasota County, FL
The radar
The Tampa radar (KTBW), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
102 WHUS42 KTBW 290657 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 157 AM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-300600- /O.NEW.KTBW.RP.S.0019.251230T0200Z-251231T0600Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 157 AM EST Mon Dec 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TUESDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...From this evening 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
371 WHUS42 KTBW 301211 CFWTBW Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL 711 AM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 FLZ050-151-155-160-162-165-310500- /O.CON.KTBW.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-251231T0600Z/ Pinellas-Coastal Hillsborough-Coastal Manatee-Coastal Sarasota- Coastal Charlotte-Coastal Lee- 711 AM EST Tue Dec 30 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Pinellas, Coastal Hillsborough, Coastal Manatee, Coastal Sarasota, Coastal Charlotte and Coastal Lee Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tampa Bay, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 8:56 PM EST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | TBW | 12 hr | |
| Dec 29, 12:04 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TBW | Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Dec 29, 12:58 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | TBW | 54 hr | |
| Dec 29, 11:09 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TBW | Citrus, Hernando, Levy, Sumter | 24 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.