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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Jan 24, 2019, 7:34 PM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 24, 2019, 7:34 PM CST (01:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2019, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 16 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 01:36 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, 1.6 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
- 1958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
361 WHUS44 KMOB 250134 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 734 PM CST Thu Jan 24 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-251200- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0005.190125T0134Z-190125T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 734 PM CST Thu Jan 24 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY... The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect until 6 AM CST Friday. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
348 WHUS44 KMOB 251110 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 510 AM CST Fri Jan 25 2019 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-251800- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-190125T1800Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 510 AM CST Fri Jan 25 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... The National Weather Service in Mobile has reissued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect until Noon CST today. * WHERE...Gulf beaches of Alabama and Northwest Florida. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... There is a high risk of rip currents. Rip currents are life- threatening to anyone entering the surf. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. && $$
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.