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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Jan 11, 2019, 2:47 PM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It took effect at Jan 12, 2019, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2019, 2:47 PM CST (20:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 12, 2019, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2019, 3:50 AM CST
- In force
- 22 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 20:52 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, 8.8 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
- 2083 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
475 WHUS44 KMOB 112047 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 247 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-120500- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0002.190112T1200Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 247 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Saturday morning through late Sunday 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. 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
586 WHUS44 KMOB 120519 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1119 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-121330- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.190112T1200Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1119 PM CST Fri Jan 11 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST SATURDAY THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
692 WHUS44 KMOB 120949 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 349 AM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-121915- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.190112T1200Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 349 AM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY 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. 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. && $$
820 WHUS44 KMOB 122146 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 346 PM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-130615- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 346 PM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY NIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf is dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
666 WHUS44 KMOB 130555 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1155 PM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-131400- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1155 PM CST Sat Jan 12 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE SUNDAY 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. 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. && $$
345 WHUS44 KMOB 130950 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 350 AM CST Sun Jan 13 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-131100- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-190114T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 350 AM CST Sun Jan 13 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Mobile has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. $$
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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.