On the evening of April 9th, 2 teenagers drowned in the Gulf waters off of Dauphin Island after being swept out by strong rip currents.
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.
On the evening of April 9th, 2 teenagers drowned in the Gulf waters off of Dauphin Island after being swept out by strong rip currents.
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 Apr 9, 2:30 PM CST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE TO AVIATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 330 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 .AVIATION... 00Z ISSUANCE...AM EXPECTING MVFR CIGS TO SLOWLY DROP OVERNIGHT INTO IFR TO LIFR LEVELS AS WINDS SETTLE. A FRONT SAGGING SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY IS EXPECTED TO BRING INCREASING CHANCES OF TSRA...WITH LOW END MVFR/UPPER END IFR CIGS/VISBYS WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. /16 && .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT AND FRIDAY)...VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS WILL SHIFT NE TO THE GREAT LAKES REGION THROUGH 00Z SAT. AS THIS SYSTEM TRACKS EASTWARD THROUGH FRI ANOTHER LOBE OF MID LEVEL ENERGY ALLOWS THIS SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN STRENGTH THROUGH FRI AFT ALLOWING A WEAK COLD FRONT WELL TO THE WEST NORTHWEST TO MOVE SOUTHEAST OVER THE LOWER MS RIVER VALLEY AND CENTRAL GULF COAST REGION FRI AFTERNOON AND FRI NIGHT. AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP MOVING MOSTLY TOWARDS THE SOUTHEAST OR TOWARDS THE MS...AL..NWFL COAST BY MID TO LATE FRI AFTERNOON. OTHER SHOWERS WITH MAYBE AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM OR TWO WILL FORM WELL AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM MOSTLY OVER THE ADJACENT GULF WATERS LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRI MOVING INLAND TOWARDS THE COAST WITH A LIGHT ONSHORE FLOW. THE HEAVIEST PRECIP WILL OCCUR DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ALONG THE FRONT MOSTLY DURING MAX HEATING WHERE SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY WILL BE HIGHEST...SURFACE BASED CAPES CLIMBING TO 1500 TO MAYBE 2000 J/K. AT THIS TIME SPC HAS MOST OF THE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK MAINLY FOR THE THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING JUST AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE GUSTY WINDS MOSTLY IN THE 35 TO 45 KNOT RANGE WITH SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZE HAIL WITH ISOLATED CASES OF DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL OCCURRING MOSTLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON OR EARLY EVENING HOURS. AT THIS TIME LITTLE VERTICAL SHEAR IS NOTED FOR FRI LIMITING THE CHANCE FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT ROTATION. FOR STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES THROUGH TONIGHT ON THE DEVELOPING PRECIP FOR FRI. WITH BETTER MIXING THROUGH THE NIGHT ALONG WITH THE DEEP RIDGING MOVING OFF TO THE EAST EXPECT MOSTLY PATCHY FOG FORMING WELL INLAND LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRI. ANY DENSE FOG THAT DOES OCCUR WILL BE OVER EXTREME EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWFA EARLY FRI MORNING. AS FOR TEMPS WILL CONTINUE TO LEAN TOWARDS THE WARMER MAV MOS THROUGH FRI AND ADJUST SLIGHTLY MOSTLY FOR CONSISTENCY WITH SURROUNDING WFOS. LOWS TONIGHT WILL FALL TO THE MID 60S FOR MOST INLAND AREAS AND THE LOWER 70S CLOSE TO THE COAST. HIGHS ON FRI WILL CLIMB TO THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 80S GENERALLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE I-10 CORRIDOR AND THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S FOR AREAS FURTHER TO THE NORTH. 32/EE .LONG TERM (SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)...THE FRONT WILL REMAIN NEAR THE COAST THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT PROVIDING A FOCUS FOR CONTINUED CHANCES OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE EAST ON SUNDAY ALLOWING THE FRONT TO MOVE NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT. MEANWHILE...A SOUTHWEST UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL PERSIST AS A CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE SOUTHWEST LIFTS NORTHEAST AS AN OPEN WAVE THROUGH THROUGH TUESDAY. PLENTY OF MOISTURE COMBINED WITH DISTURBANCES IN THE SOUTHWEST UPPER FLOW...WILL MAINTAIN SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MID WEEK. /13 && .MARINE...A LIGHT TO MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL PERSIST THROUGH FRI AS A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE CONTINUES TO STRETCH FROM THE WESTERN ATLANTIC INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF. A WEAKENING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH OVER THE MARINE AREA BY FRI NIGHT LEADING TO SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FRI THROUGH EARLY SAT AFTERNOON...TAPERING OFF SLOWLY THROUGH SAT NIGHT...REFORMING AGAIN ON SUN THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE FRONT MOVES BACK TOWARDS THE COAST. GUSTY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRI THROUGH SAT MORNING. 32/EE && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... MOBILE 67 83 65 76 64 / 10 70 50 50 40 PENSACOLA 71 82 67 76 68 / 05 60 50 50 40 DESTIN 71 81 67 75 68 / 05 40 50 50 40 EVERGREEN 66 80 63 77 62 / 05 70 50 40 30 WAYNESBORO 67 81 60 78 61 / 20 80 50 40 30 CAMDEN 68 79 61 78 59 / 10 80 50 20 30 CRESTVIEW 65 85 66 78 65 / 05 60 50 50 40 && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. FL...NONE. MS...NONE. GM...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 415 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-102115- CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW- ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE- LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY- GREENE-STONE-GEORGE- 415 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PATCHY FOG POSSIBLY BECOMING LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY...GENERALLY EAST OF THE I-65 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAKENING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARDS THE FORECAST AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON FRIDAY THEN SHIFT SOUTH OF THE COAST LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS OCCURRING MOSTLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. AT THIS TIME THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MOSTLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. GUSTY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS MOSTLY IN THE 35 TO 45 KNOTS RANGE...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND ISOLATED CASES OF HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS. AT THIS TIME VERY LIMITED VERTICAL SHEAR IS NOTED IN THE MODEL GUIDANCE FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT ROTATION FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH WEDNESDAY. GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-102115- NORTHERN MOBILE BAY-SOUTHERN MOBILE BAY-MISSISSIPPI SOUND- PERDIDO BAY-PENSACOLA BAY SYSTEM-CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY- COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 415 PM CDT THU APR 9 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT LOCALLY DENSE FOG MAINLY OVER THE NEAR SHORE WATERS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A WEAKENING COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST LATE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE. GUSTY STRAIGHT LINE WINDS POSSIBLY UP 45 KNOTS...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Two male teenagers from Mobile were swimming in waist deep water off of Dauphin Island when they were swept out by strong rip currents. Both teenagers drowned as a result.
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 Mobile | 2015-04-09 | 16 | Male | In Water | Direct |
| Rip Current, Lower Mobile | 2015-04-09 | 16 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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