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Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Oct 20, 2021, 10:04 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 20, 2021, 10:04 AM CDT (15:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2021, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 15:05 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, 3.1 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
- 1216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
544 WHUS44 KMOB 201504 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1004 AM CDT Wed Oct 20 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-210000- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0029.211020T1504Z-211021T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1004 AM CDT Wed Oct 20 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
634 WHUS44 KMOB 202305 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 605 PM CDT Wed Oct 20 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-211000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-211021T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 605 PM CDT Wed Oct 20 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 AM CDT THURSDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Until 5 AM CDT Thursday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
343 WHUS44 KMOB 210834 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 334 AM CDT Thu Oct 21 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-211645- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-211022T1100Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 334 AM CDT Thu Oct 21 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW 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. && $$
590 WHUS44 KMOB 212014 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 314 PM CDT Thu Oct 21 2021 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-220000- /O.EXT.KMOB.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-211022T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 314 PM CDT Thu Oct 21 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Baldwin Coastal and Mobile Coastal Counties. In Florida, Santa Rosa Coastal, Okaloosa Coastal and Escambia Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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.