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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Jul 10, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2023, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 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 18:01 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, 6.0 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
- 2737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
850 WHUS44 KMOB 101800 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 100 PM CDT Mon Jul 10 2023 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-110200- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0025.230710T1800Z-230711T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 100 PM CDT Mon Jul 10 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * 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...Through Tuesday morning. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
598 WHUS44 KMOB 110341 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1041 PM CDT Mon Jul 10 2023 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-111200- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-230711T1200Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1041 PM CDT Mon Jul 10 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 AM CDT Tuesday. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:59 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Escambia | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 4:28 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jul 10, 3:11 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Jul 10, 6:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Jul 10, 7:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Jul 10, 9:21 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Jul 10, 9:32 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Jul 10, 9:51 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| Jul 10, 10:57 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 min | |
| Jul 10, 3:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:23 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 112 min |
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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.