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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Apr 15, 2017, 11:38 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2017, 11:38 AM CDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 2017, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
419 WHUS44 KMOB 151638 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1138 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA BEACHES NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT... .A LONG PERIOD ONSHORE SWELL AND A MODERATE TIDAL CYCLE WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH TONIGHT. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-160430- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0011.170415T1638Z-170416T1100Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1138 AM CDT SAT APR 15 2017 ...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. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
501 WHUS44 KMOB 160211 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 911 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ALONG ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA BEACHES REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TONIGHT... .A LONG PERIOD ONSHORE SWELL AND A MODERATE TIDAL CYCLE WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH TONIGHT. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-161100- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-170416T1100Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 911 PM CDT SAT APR 15 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CDT SUNDAY... * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE-THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$
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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.