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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Mar 5, 2024, 8:49 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2024, 8:49 AM CST (14:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 6, 2024, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 19 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 14:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -184 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.9
The text
As transmitted.
468 WHUS44 KMOB 051449 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 849 AM CST Tue Mar 5 2024 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-052300- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0010.240305T1449Z-240306T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 849 AM CST Tue Mar 5 2024 ...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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
058 WHUS44 KMOB 052204 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 404 PM CST Tue Mar 5 2024 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-061000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240306T1000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 404 PM CST Tue Mar 5 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:58 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 1:21 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 17 hr | |
| Mar 5, 8:37 AM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 6 hr |
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.