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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Jan 2, 2021, 5:01 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 37 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2021, 5:01 AM CST (11:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 37 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 11:03 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, 11.0 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
- 1565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
305 WHUS44 KMOB 021101 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 501 AM CST Sat Jan 2 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-022100- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0001.210102T1101Z-210103T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 501 AM CST Sat Jan 2 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * 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 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
790 WHUS44 KMOB 022210 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 410 PM CST Sat Jan 2 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-031200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210103T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 410 PM CST Sat Jan 2 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
867 WHUS44 KMOB 030829 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 229 AM CST Sun Jan 3 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-031630- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210104T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 229 AM CST Sun Jan 3 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * 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 this 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. && $$
241 WHUS44 KMOB 031503 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 903 AM CST Sun Jan 3 2021 ALZ265-266-031615- /O.CAN.KMOB.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210104T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal- 903 AM CST Sun Jan 3 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Lifeguards along Alabama beaches are reporting weaker and less frequent rip currents this morning. Some rip currents may still occur in the surf zone today and the rip current risk is now MODERATE through late this afternoon. $$ FLZ202-204-206-040000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210104T0000Z/ Escambia Coastal-Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 903 AM CST Sun Jan 3 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through this 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. && $$
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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.