Rip Current in Lower Baldwin, Alabama

Rip Current June 9, 2013 – June 10, 2013 · Lower Baldwin, Alabama

Deaths

What the National Weather Service wrote

Strong rip currents developed as winds increased around scattered thunderstorms combined with strong outgoing tidal currents. Three vacationing swimmers just off the Gulf-side beaches of the Fort Morgan Peninsula became caught in strong rip currents and drowned. The swimmers were reportedly vacationing separately from Bowling Green, Kentucky, Bossier City, Louisiana, and Overland Park, Kansas. One of the victims was reportedly trying to rescue another victim.

The wider storm

Stronger winds associated with passing scattered thunderstorms combined with strong outgoing astronomical tides produced a series of deadly rip currents along the Gulf-side beaches of Alabama on Sunday June 9th and Monday June 10th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 445551. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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