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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Nov 22, 2018, 3:39 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 23, 2018, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 22, 2018, 3:39 AM CST (09:39 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 23, 2018, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2018, 12:00 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 09:42 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, 9.7 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
- 1387 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
898 WHUS44 KMOB 220939 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 339 AM CST Thu Nov 22 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-221800- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0028.181123T1200Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 339 AM CST Thu Nov 22 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Friday morning through Saturday morning. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of ALabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME 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. && $$
6 follow-up statements
007 WHUS44 KMOB 221742 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1142 AM CST Thu Nov 22 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-230145- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.181123T1200Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1142 AM CST Thu Nov 22 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$ JLH
117 WHUS44 KMOB 230635 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1235 AM CST Fri Nov 23 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-231500- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.181123T1200Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1235 AM CST Fri Nov 23 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME 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. && $$
728 WHUS44 KMOB 231449 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 849 AM CST Fri Nov 23 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-232300- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 849 AM CST Fri Nov 23 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
672 WHUS44 KMOB 240607 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1207 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-241415- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1207 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME 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. && $$
192 WHUS44 KMOB 240609 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1209 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-241630- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1209 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF WILL BECOME DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
753 WHUS44 KMOB 241058 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 458 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-241800- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-181124T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 458 AM CST Sat Nov 24 2018 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become 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.