Rip Current in Lower Mobile, Alabama

Rip Current April 9, 2015 · Lower Mobile, Alabama

Deaths

What the National Weather Service wrote

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.

The wider storm

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.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 560027. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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