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Rip Current Statement 24, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Oct 11, 2018, 7:05 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 11, 2018, 7:05 AM CDT (12:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2018, 11:03 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 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 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1228 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
264 WHUS44 KMOB 111205 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 705 AM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-112015- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0024.181011T1205Z-181012T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 705 AM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Friday 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
424 WHUS44 KMOB 112005 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 305 PM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-120400- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-181012T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 305 PM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
276 WHUS44 KMOB 120251 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 951 PM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-121100- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-181012T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 951 PM CDT Thu Oct 11 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY 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. && $$
933 WHUS44 KMOB 121124 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 624 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-121800- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-181012T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 624 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
293 WHUS44 KMOB 121603 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1103 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-121715- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0024.000000T0000Z-181012T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1103 AM CDT Fri Oct 12 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Mobile has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. $$
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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.