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Rip Current Statement 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at Aug 24, 2024, 3:53 AM CDT for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It took effect at Aug 24, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 24, 2024, 3:53 AM CDT (08:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 24, 2024, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 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 08:54 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, 8.9 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
- 1272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1146 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
186 WHUS44 KMOB 240853 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 353 AM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-241700- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0028.240824T0900Z-240825T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 353 AM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... * 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 early 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
823 WHUS44 KMOB 241859 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 159 PM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-250000- /O.CON.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-240825T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 159 PM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Alabama, Mobile Coastal and Baldwin Coastal Counties. In Florida, Escambia Coastal, Santa Rosa Coastal and Okaloosa Coastal Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
438 WHUS44 KMOB 250010 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 710 PM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-250115- /O.EXP.KMOB.RP.S.0028.000000T0000Z-240825T0000Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 710 PM CDT Sat Aug 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... The High Risk of dangerous rip currents has eased. There may still be a locally Moderate Risk. Persons on area beaches are urged to continue to exercise caution. $$
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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.