Strong winds over the near shore waters created dangerous rip currents and caused one death.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.
Strong winds over the near shore waters created dangerous rip currents and caused one death.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 26, 3:37 AM CST, 9 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 437 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 .SHORT TERM (TODAY AND TONIGHT)...HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED NEAR THE CAROLINA/GEORGIA COAST WILL MOVE LITTLE THROUGH TONIGHT. WITH THIS PATTERN A PERSISTENT EAST TO SOUTHEAST WIND FLOW WILL CONTINUE...GIVING WAY TO INCREASING LOW LEVEL MOISTURE TO THE CWFA. WILL KEEP A SLIGHT CHANCE POP ACROSS INLAND SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CWFA TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT...MAINLY FROM A WEAK SEABREEZE CIRCULATION FRONT MOVING INLAND DURING MID TO LATE AFTERNOON HOURS. WILL GO A TAD WARMER THAN THE MAVMOS MAINLY FOR INLAND AREAS OF THE CWFA THIS AFTERNOON. /32 && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY)...THE DEEP LAYER RIDGE OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST STATES CREEPS EASTWARD TO THE EAST COAST AND WEAKENS SLIGHTLY THROUGH MONDAY AS A SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES REGION AND THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. MEANWHILE A LONGWAVE SYSTEM ADVANCES INTO THE NORTHWEST STATES AND ADVANCES ACROSS THE PLAINS TO THE EASTERN STATES THROUGH FRIDAY. THE DEEP LAYER RIDGING RETROGRADES SLIGHTLY BACK TO OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST STATES ON TUESDAY IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYSTEM THEN SHIFTS INTO THE WESTERN ATLANTIC BY THURSDAY. THROUGH THE ENTIRE PERIOD A SURFACE RIDGE REMAINS OVER THE REGION RESULTING IN A GENERALLY LIGHT SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW WHICH PROMOTES A SEA BREEZE FRONT EACH DAY. LIMITED MOISTURE...DRIER OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA DUE TO SUBSIDENCE...GRADUALLY INCREASES FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY AS THE UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS EASTWARD. CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT REMAINS LIMITED TO JUST A FEW STORMS ON SUNDAY ALONG THE SEA BREEZE...AND SLIGHTLY INCREASED FOR MONDAY. LOW END CHANCE POPS ARE INTRODUCED FOR TUESDAY OVER THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA WHERE DEEPER MOISTURE IS PRESENT. A SERIES OF SHORTWAVE SYSTEMS MOVE ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS THE BASE OF THE LONGWAVE TROF SHIFTS INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES. THESE FEATURES AND IMPROVED DEEP LAYER MOISTURE ENHANCE CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT WITH CHANCE POPS FOLLOWING FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. WENT SLIGHTLY ABOVE GFS MOS FOR SOME INLAND AREAS SUNDAY AND MONDAY DUE TO CONTRIBUTION FROM SUBSIDENCE HEATING. GFS MOS HIGHS ARE A BIT TOO COOL TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY DUE TO OVERACTIVE CONVECTION AND HAVE USED GFS ENSEMBLE MOS FOR THESE DAYS WHICH BLENDS BETTER WITH ADJACENT OFFICES. /29 && .MARINE...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED NEAR THE CAROLINA COAST WILL MAINTAIN A MODERATE EAST TO SOUTHEAST WIND FLOW OVER THE MARINE AREA THROUGH WEDNESDAY. SEAS WILL RANGE FROM 2 TO 5 FEET WITHIN 20 NM FROM SHORE...AND FROM 3 TO 6 FEET FROM 20 TO 60 NM OUT. /32 && .FIRE WEATHER...NO CONCERNS. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITIES WILL BE JUST ABOVE CRITICAL LEVELS TODAY...THEN GRADUALLY INCREASE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS MOISTURE SLOWLY INCREASES. /29 && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MOBILE 85 62 85 65 / 20 20 20 10 PENSACOLA 83 67 83 67 / 20 10 20 10 DESTIN 83 68 84 69 / 10 10 10 10 EVERGREEN 87 60 87 61 / 05 20 10 10 WAYNESBORO 86 62 88 63 / 10 10 05 10 CAMDEN 87 62 88 66 / 05 10 05 10 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. && 29 EVERSOLE 32 ESBENSEN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 515 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-GMZ630-650-655-670-675-MSZ067-075-076-078-079- 271200- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- MOBILE BAY-BALDWIN COASTAL-BALDWIN INLAND-BUTLER-CHOCTAW-CLARKE- CONECUH-COVINGTON-CRENSHAW-ESCAMBIA-ESCAMBIA COASTAL-ESCAMBIA INLAND- GEORGE-GREENE-MOBILE COASTAL-MOBILE INLAND-MONROE-OKALOOSA COASTAL- OKALOOSA INLAND-PERRY-SANTA ROSA COASTAL-SANTA ROSA INLAND-STONE- WASHINGTON-WAYNE-WILCOX- 515 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ALONG BEACHES ON SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS FOR SEVERE WEATHER OPERATIONS WILL NOT BE REQUIRED.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
The Gulf of Mexico's turbulent surf claimed its second drowning victim of the summer season when an out of state visitor drowned in Gulf Shores. The 43 year old male was swimming with other people when he got in trouble in the rough surf and drowned. Later the same day, two separate distressed swimmers had to be safely pulled from the rough water.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Lower Baldwin | 2007-05-26 | 43 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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