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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2019, 7:42 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 40 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2019, 7:42 AM CST (13:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2019, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 40 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 13:41 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, 1.7 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
- 446 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
523 WHUS44 KMOB 221342 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 742 AM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-230000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0010.190222T1342Z-190223T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 742 AM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect until 6 PM CST this evening. * 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
003 WHUS44 KMOB 221910 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 110 PM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-230315- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-190223T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 110 PM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH 6 AM SATURDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
052 WHUS44 KMOB 230310 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 910 PM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-231200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-190223T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 910 PM CST Fri Feb 22 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST SATURDAY... * 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. && $$
841 WHUS44 KMOB 230906 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 306 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-232000- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-190224T0600Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 306 AM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
815 WHUS44 KMOB 232150 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 350 PM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-240600- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-190224T0600Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 350 PM CST Sat Feb 23 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 2:19 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 22 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Florida, 2019Rip Current Statements in Alabama, 2019Every rip current statement in 2019
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.