Alert archive / Florida / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Apr 24, 2019, 2:55 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It took effect at Apr 25, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2019, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2019, 3:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 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 19:57 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, 7.9 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
361 WHUS44 KMOB 241955 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 255 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-250400- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0018.190425T1500Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 255 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Thursday morning through Friday morning. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will be 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
490 WHUS44 KMOB 250317 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1017 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-251200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0018.190425T1500Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1017 PM CDT Wed Apr 24 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CDT THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will be dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
621 WHUS44 KMOB 250917 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 417 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-251730- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0018.190425T1500Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 417 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will be 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. && $$
110 WHUS44 KMOB 251719 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1219 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-260130- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1219 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will be dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
812 WHUS44 KMOB 260340 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1040 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-261145- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1040 PM CDT Thu Apr 25 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT FRIDAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the western Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will be 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. && $$
181 WHUS44 KMOB 260813 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 313 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-260915- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-190426T1500Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 313 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Mobile has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. A moderate risk for rip currents will continue along the gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida through early next week. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:27 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 42 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.