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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this rip current statement at Apr 13, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT for 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 13, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT (06:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2026, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 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 06:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 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
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
627 WHUS42 KTAE 130600 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 200 AM EDT Mon Apr 13 2026 FLZ108-112-114-115-140900- /O.NEW.KTAE.RP.S.0026.260413T0600Z-260414T0900Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 200 AM EDT Mon Apr 13 2026 /100 AM CDT Mon Apr 13 2026/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
098 WHUS42 KTAE 140647 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 247 AM EDT Tue Apr 14 2026 FLZ108-112-114-115-150600- /O.EXT.KTAE.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-260415T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay-Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 247 AM EDT Tue Apr 14 2026 /147 AM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Walton, Bay, Gulf, and Franklin County Beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
848 WHUS42 KTAE 141629 CFWTAE Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Tallahassee FL 1229 PM EDT Tue Apr 14 2026 FLZ108-112-141730- /O.CAN.KTAE.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-260415T0600Z/ South Walton-Coastal Bay- 1129 AM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ FLZ114-115-150600- /O.CON.KTAE.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-260415T0600Z/ Coastal Gulf-Coastal Franklin- 1229 PM EDT Tue Apr 14 2026 /1129 AM CDT Tue Apr 14 2026/ ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...West and South-Facing Gulf and Franklin County beaches. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.