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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Mar 15, 2026, 6:17 PM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2026, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 953 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
719 WHUS42 KTAE 152317 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 717 PM EDT Sun Mar 15 2026 FLZ108-112-114-115-170600- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0017.260315T2317Z-260317T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 717 PM EDT Sun Mar 15 2026 /617 PM CDT Sun Mar 15 2026/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE MONDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Monday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
507 WHUS42 KTAE 160726 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 326 AM EDT Mon Mar 16 2026 FLZ108-112-114-115-170600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-260317T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 326 AM EDT Mon Mar 16 2026 /226 AM CDT Mon Mar 16 2026/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late Monday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:39 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | TAE | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Liberty and 2 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 15, 12:57 PM CDT | Gale Warning | TAE | 32 hr | |
| Mar 15, 12:57 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | TAE | 42 hr | |
| Mar 15, 4:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | TAE | 116 min |
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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.