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High Surf Advisory 4, NWS Mobile, AL

February 11, 2023Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this high surf advisory at Feb 11, 2023, 3:34 PM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 12, 2023, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 11, 2023, 3:34 PM CST (21:34 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 12, 2023, 12:00 AM CST
Expired
Feb 12, 2023, 3:00 PM CST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL

Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 259 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2023-02-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2023-02-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high surf advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high surf advisory went out at Feb 11, 12:13 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 12:13 PM CST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 11, 3:22 AM CSTGale WarningMOB33 hr
Feb 11, 3:22 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMOB36 hr
Feb 11, 10:19 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMOB8 hr
Feb 11, 10:47 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBMobile35 hr
Feb 11, 3:23 PM CSTWind AdvisoryMOBBaldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more21 hr
Feb 11, 3:34 PM CSTRip Current StatementMOBBaldwin, Mobile26 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.