Rip Current, Duval
- When
- May 25, 1:00 PM EST
- Where
- Duval County, 6 mi N of Mayport
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 30.335, -81.648 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Rip Current in Florida, May 25, 2005
Five people had to be rescued from strong rip currents at Talbot Island.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS JAX wrote it up.
Five people had to be rescued from strong rip currents at Talbot Island.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Jacksonville, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 25, 8:50 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 8:50 AM EST, 4 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSONVILLE FL
950 AM EDT WED MAY 25 2005
.PUBLIC...MUCH DRIER AIR HAS FILTERED INTO THE CWA (COUNTY WARNING
AREA) FOLLOWING THE FRONT NOW ACROSS CENTRAL FL. THE 60 DEG
ISODROSOTHERM IS RIGHT AT THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE CWA. SOUNDING
SHOWS AN EXCEPTIONALLY STABLE AIR MASS OVER NORTH FL FOR LATE MAY.
SATELLITE SHOWS A VORT MAX IN VICINITY OF MSY TO PNS...AND THIS
FEATURE IS EXPECTED TO TRAVEL SE TOWARD CNTRL FL WHERE INSTABILITY
IS HIGHER SOUTH OF FRONT. HAVE LOWERED POPS TO PRACTICALLY NIL FOR
MOST OF AREA EXCEPT KEPT SLGT CHANCE FOR MARION COUNTY DUE TO
PROXIMITY TO FRONT AND VORT MAX TRAJECTORY. TEMPS LOOK GOOD...SO NO
OTHER CHANGES EXPECTED.
&&
.MARINE...WINDS PEAKED A FEW HOURS AGO AND ARE BEGINNING TO
DECREASE. SEAS ARE RUNNING 5-6 FEET AT BUOYS IN NORTH FL AND SOUTH
GA WATERS. WILL BE LOWERING THE SCA TO SCEC FOR THE AFTERNOON. THEN
ANTICIPATE FURTHER DECREASE THIS EVENING.
&&
.JAX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON FOR FLZ020>022.
GA...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.
&&
MKT/JTDThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 25, 2005
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 25, 2005
More
Every storm in Florida in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Florida, May 2005
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5445517.