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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Mar 18, 2020, 11:34 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It took effect at Mar 19, 2020, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2020, 11:34 AM CDT (16:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 19, 2020, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 21, 2020, 5:17 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 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 16:32 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, 4.6 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
466 WHUS44 KMOB 181634 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1134 AM CDT Wed Mar 18 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-191100- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0011.200319T1100Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1134 AM CDT Wed Mar 18 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * 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 Thursday morning through late Friday night. * 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. && $$
6 follow-up statements
130 WHUS44 KMOB 190933 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 433 AM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-191745- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.200319T1100Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 433 AM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late Friday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
355 WHUS44 KMOB 191604 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1104 AM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-200300- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1104 AM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late Friday night. * 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. && $$
123 WHUS44 KMOB 200233 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 933 PM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-201100- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 933 PM CDT Thu Mar 19 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late Friday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
499 WHUS44 KMOB 201028 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 528 AM CDT Fri Mar 20 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-201830- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 528 AM CDT Fri Mar 20 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late Friday night. * 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. && $$
051 WHUS44 KMOB 201757 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1257 PM CDT Fri Mar 20 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-211100- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1257 PM CDT Fri Mar 20 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
570 WHUS44 KMOB 211017 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 517 AM CDT Sat Mar 21 2020 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-211130- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-200321T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 517 AM CDT Sat Mar 21 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Conditions now indicate a Moderate Risk of rip currents today, then a Low Risk of rip currents tonight through the early part of next week. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 1:57 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
| Mar 18, 1:58 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 8 hr |
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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.