Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2018
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Feb 3, 2018, 4:55 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It took effect at Feb 3, 2018, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2018, 4:55 AM CST (10:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2018, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 4, 2018, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 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 10:59 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 00:00Z, 10.9 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
- 2312 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
709 WHUS44 KMOB 031055 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 455 AM CST Sat Feb 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM NOON CST TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... .High swell heights well offshore combined with a moderate to strong onshore flow later today and tonight will lead to a high risk for dangerous rip currents later today through Sunday afternoon. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-040000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0002.180203T1800Z-180205T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 455 AM CST Sat Feb 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM NOON CST TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from noon CST today through Sunday afternoon. * WHERE...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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
976 WHUS44 KMOB 032316 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 516 PM CST Sat Feb 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... .High swell heights well offshore combined with a moderate to strong onshore flow will lead to a high risk for dangerous rip currents through Sunday afternoon. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-040800- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-180205T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 516 PM CST Sat Feb 3 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
205 WHUS44 KMOB 041019 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 419 AM CST Sun Feb 4 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FOR THE GULF BEACHES OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .High swell heights well offshore combined with a moderate to strong onshore flow will lead to a high risk for dangerous rip currents through this afternoon. ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-050000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-180205T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 419 AM CST Sun Feb 4 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHERE...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. && $$
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.