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Rip Current Statement 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Dec 14, 2019, 4:21 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2019, 4:21 AM CST (10:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2019, 11:57 AM CST
- In force
- 8 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 10:22 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, 10.4 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
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted.
136 WHUS44 KMOB 141021 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 421 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-141830- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0039.191214T1021Z-191218T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 421 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
199 WHUS44 KMOB 141757 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1157 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-150200- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0039.000000T0000Z-191218T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0040.191215T1200Z-191218T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1157 AM CST Sat Dec 14 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...From Sunday morning through Tuesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 11:57 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 days |
| Dec 13, 6:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Dec 13, 7:23 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Dec 13, 9:18 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min |
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.