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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at May 7, 2019, 5:04 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at May 7, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2019, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 7, 2019, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 7, 2019, 10:48 AM CDT
- In force
- 4 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 10:09 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, 10.1 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -407 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
844 WHUS44 KMOB 071004 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 504 AM CDT Tue May 7 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-072000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0019.190507T1200Z-190510T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 504 AM CDT Tue May 7 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through Thursday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
896 WHUS44 KMOB 071548 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 1048 AM CDT Tue May 7 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-080000- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-190510T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0020.190508T1100Z-190510T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1048 AM CDT Tue May 7 2019 ...THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through late Thursday night. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers... * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:48 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 5 days |
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.