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Rip Current Statement 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Nov 26, 2019, 5:49 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Nov 27, 2019, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 26, 2019, 5:49 AM CST (11:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 27, 2019, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 28, 2019, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 24 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 11:50 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 00:00Z, 11.8 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
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
865 WHUS44 KMOB 261149 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 549 AM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-262000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0036.191127T1200Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 549 AM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through late Wednesday night. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
740 WHUS44 KMOB 261837 AAA CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Mobile AL 1237 PM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-270600- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0036.191127T1200Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1237 PM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
791 WHUS44 KMOB 270457 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1057 PM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-271300- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0036.191127T1200Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1057 PM CST Tue Nov 26 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST WEDNESDAY THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become 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. && $$
047 WHUS44 KMOB 271228 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 628 AM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-272100- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 628 AM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
105 WHUS44 KMOB 272204 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 404 PM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-280615- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 404 PM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become 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. && $$
931 WHUS44 KMOB 280534 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1134 PM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-281200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0036.000000T0000Z-191128T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1134 PM CST Wed Nov 27 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST THURSDAY... * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and the northwest Florida panhandle. * IMPACTS...Frequent life-threatening rip currents are expected. The surf will become dangerous for all levels of swimmers. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
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.