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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Mar 29, 2019, 10:06 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2019, 10:06 AM CDT (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2019, 8:06 PM CDT
- In force
- 10 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 15:04 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, 3.1 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
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
382 WHUS44 KMOB 291506 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1006 AM CDT Fri Mar 29 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-300000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0014.190329T1506Z-190401T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1006 AM CDT Fri Mar 29 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Sunday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
246 WHUS44 KMOB 300106 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 806 PM CDT Fri Mar 29 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-300215- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-190401T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 806 PM CDT Fri Mar 29 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Mobile has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. The risk of dangerous rip currents has been lowered to moderate. A Moderate Risk of rip currents is now expected to continue through Sunday evening. Remember to heed the advice of the local beach patrol and flag warning systems. $$
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.