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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Oct 23, 2017, 10:38 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 2017, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2017, 4:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 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 15:37 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, 3.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
066 WHUS44 KMOB 231538 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1038 AM CDT MON OCT 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-232345- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0025.171023T1538Z-171024T0900Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 1038 AM CDT MON OCT 23 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. * WHERE...ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
997 WHUS44 KMOB 232100 CFWMOB COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 400 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-240900- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-171024T0900Z/ MOBILE COASTAL-BALDWIN COASTAL-ESCAMBIA COASTAL- SANTA ROSA COASTAL-OKALOOSA COASTAL- 400 PM CDT MON OCT 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHERE...ALONG THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE- THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DON'T FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE, FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED, FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Oct 22, 7:52 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 4 hr |
| Oct 22, 8:02 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 66 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 12 hr |
| Oct 22, 11:02 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 28 min | |
| Oct 23, 1:00 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 4:32 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 11 hr | |
| Oct 23, 10:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 6 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:14 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 12 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2017Rip Current Statements in Alabama, 2017Every rip current statement in 2017
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.