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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Sep 14, 2019, 12:14 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2019, 12:14 PM CDT (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2019, 3:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 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 17:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 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
- 666 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1140 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
224 WHUS44 KMOB 141714 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1214 PM CDT Sat Sep 14 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-150115- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0028.190914T1714Z-190915T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1214 PM CDT Sat Sep 14 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect through late tonight. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. * 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
977 WHUS44 KMOB 150431 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1131 PM CDT Sat Sep 14 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-151000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-190915T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1131 PM CDT Sat Sep 14 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT SUNDAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
155 WHUS44 KMOB 150851 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 351 AM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-151700- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-190916T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 351 AM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. * 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. && $$
176 WHUS44 KMOB 152024 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 324 PM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-160000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-190916T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 324 PM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
234 WHUS44 KMOB 152337 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 637 PM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-161045- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-190916T2300Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 637 PM CDT Sun Sep 15 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK CONTINUES THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Northwest Florida and Alabama. * 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. && $$
569 WHUS44 KMOB 160820 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 320 AM CDT Mon Sep 16 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-160930- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-190916T2300Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 320 AM CDT Mon Sep 16 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Mobile has cancelled the High Rip Current Risk. A moderate risk of rip currents will continue through today. && $$
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.