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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Aug 14, 2016, 11:03 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2016, 11:03 AM CDT (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1600 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
868 WHUS44 KMOB 141603 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1103 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH 9 PM THIS EVENING... .A RELATIVELY STORNG ONSHORE WIND FLOW...HIGHER SWELL AND AN INCREASING TIDAL CYCLE HAVE COMBINED TO CREATE A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY. A MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS IS FORECAST TONIGHT AND AGAIN ON MONDAY. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-150015- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0024.160814T1603Z-160815T0200Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1103 AM CDT SUN AUG 14 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 9 PM 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. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 12:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 12:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 40 min |
| Aug 14, 12:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 58 min |
| Aug 14, 1:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 61 min |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Marengo | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Crenshaw | 50 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2016Rip Current Statements in Alabama, 2016Every rip current statement in 2016
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.