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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Aug 15, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Aug 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2016, 3:00 AM CDT (08:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 15, 2016, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2016, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 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 08:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 8.0 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 824 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
484 WHUS44 KMOB 150800 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 300 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FOR AREA BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF A PERSISTENT SOUTHEAST FLOW...SPRING TIDAL CYCLES AND SWELL MOVING UP INTO THE SURF ZONE RESULTS IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-151600- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0025.160815T0900Z-160816T0000Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 300 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THROUGH 7 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
504 WHUS44 KMOB 151630 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1130 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT FOR AREA BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF A PERSISTENT SOUTHEAST FLOW...SPRING TIDAL CYCLES AND SWELL MOVING UP INTO THE SURF ZONE RESULTS IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-160000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-160816T0000Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1130 AM CDT MON AUG 15 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE- THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE... FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED... FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 12:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Aug 15, 1:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke | 31 min |
| Aug 15, 2:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw, Wilcox | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.