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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Oct 25, 2018, 4:14 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 25, 2018, 4:14 AM CDT (09:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2018, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 09:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 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
- 1054 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
403 WHUS44 KMOB 250914 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 414 AM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-251715- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0025.181025T0914Z-181026T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 414 AM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Friday morning. * 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. && $$
6 follow-up statements
659 WHUS44 KMOB 251921 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 221 PM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING... ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-260500- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181026T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 221 PM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
026 WHUS44 KMOB 260252 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 952 PM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-261200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181026T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 952 PM CDT Thu Oct 25 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT FRIDAY... * 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. && $$
415 WHUS44 KMOB 260941 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 441 AM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-261745- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181027T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 441 AM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT INTO SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
582 WHUS44 KMOB 261624 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1124 AM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-270030- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181027T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1124 AM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * 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. && $$
477 WHUS44 KMOB 262310 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 610 PM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-271200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181027T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 610 PM CDT Fri Oct 26 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
932 WHUS44 KMOB 271202 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 702 AM CDT Sat Oct 27 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-271315- /O.EXP.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-181027T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 702 AM CDT Sat Oct 27 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are still expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a moderate 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 25, 12:03 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Oct 25, 2:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 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.