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Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at May 10, 2016, 11:11 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 11:11 AM CDT (16:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2016, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 259 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
670 WHUS44 KMOB 101611 AAA CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1111 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH THIS EVENING... .PERSISTENT ONSHORE FLOW COMBINED WITH A HIGH TIDAL RANGE WILL HELP MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA. FLZ202-204-206-110300- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0018.160510T1611Z-160511T0600Z/ ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1111 AM CDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE-THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
1 follow-up statement
753 WHUS44 KMOB 102203 AAA CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 503 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH THIS EVENING... .PERSISTENT ONSHORE FLOW COMBINED WITH A HIGH TIDAL RANGE WILL HELP MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH THIS EVENING. FLZ202-204-206-110600- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-160511T0600Z/ ESCAMBIA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 503 PM CDT TUE MAY 10 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT WEDNESDAY... * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE-THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
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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.