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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this rip current statement at May 8, 2025, 10:30 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2025, 10:30 AM CDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2025, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 8 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 15:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -416 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
176 WHUS44 KMOB 081530 CFWMOB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Mobile AL 1030 AM CDT Thu May 8 2025 ALZ265-266-FLZ202-204-206-082300- /O.NEW.KMOB.RP.S.0016.250508T1530Z-250508T2300Z/ Mobile Coastal-Baldwin Coastal-Escambia Coastal- Santa Rosa Coastal-Okaloosa Coastal- 1030 AM CDT Thu May 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 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 6 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 114 min | |
| May 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 38 min |
| May 8, 6:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 42 min |
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.