Rip Current in Lower Baldwin, Alabama

Rip Current June 10, 2013 · Lower Baldwin, Alabama

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A vacationing swimmer from Jonesboro, Arkansas became caught in a strong rip current near Gulf Shores and drowned.

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 445553. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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