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KEY MESSAGES

Issued at 111 AM CDT Thu Jun 4 2026

- HIGH risk of rip currents through Saturday night for the coastal Alabama and northwest Florida beaches. Surf builds to 5-6 feet through Friday. High surf combined with high tide will lead to overwash and minor inundation issues along the coast on Thursday and Friday.

- Small craft conditions persist through Saturday. - Rain chances increase this weekend, particularly over the western half of the local area. Heavy rainfall is possible, which could lead to more flooding concerns.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 111 AM CDT Thu Jun 4 2026

High pressure over the Appalachians is allowing for a cold air damming (CAD) pattern to setup across the Southeast US today. As this occurs, an anomalously dry airmass will continue to filter in from the northeast. In fact, dew points over the past couple hours have quickly dropped into the 50s across much of the local area. Throughout the morning, dew points may lower into the mid to upper 40s for interior areas. Morning lows will also be noticably cooler today, with temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s inland and mid to upper 60s along the coast. Dry conditions will persist through the day today and into tonight, with highs in the low to mid 80s and lows in the 60s tonight.

The pattern quickly changes on Friday and into the weekend as a non- tropical surface trough/low attempts to form along a stationary front south of Louisiana. As this feature lifts northward, deep moisture (PWATs between 2.0-2.3 inches) will also surge back to the north. Looking aloft, upper ridging will build over Florida while shortwave troughs lift across the ArkLaTex/Lower Mississippi River Valley region. These upper features may help to set up a rather noticeable gradient across our local area, where locations generally west of the Tombigbee River may experience multiple rounds of heavy rainfall this weekend, while locations to the east are drier due to subsident effects from the nearby ridge. Not anticipating any severe weather at this time due to shear values remaining very low. That being said, storms that do develop over our western zones would likely be slow-moving, and with very high PWATs in place, storms will likely be efficient rainfall producers. If any boundaries are able to set up and storms are able to train over the same locations, then a heavy rainfall/flash flooding threat may materialize for this weekend, especially considering the copious amounts of rainfall we have seen over the past couple weeks. We will continue to monitor trends closely. We should return back to a more typical summertime pattern by early next week, with scattered afternoon storms developing each day.

The biggest concern we have over the next few days is with regards to beach conditions. Strong easterly winds have developed over our marine zones and will turn a bit more southeasterly by tonight. This will allow for a High Risk of Rip Currents to continue through Saturday, slowly decreasing to moderate for Sunday as winds decrease. A High Surf Advisory is also in effect through Friday night for large, breaking waves of 5-6 feet. Lastly, although coastal flooding is not anticipated at this time, the stronger winds and high surf, combined with high tide, may promote overwash into some of our typical trouble spots today and Friday, such as Fort Pickens, Dauphin Island, and northern portions of Mobile Bay. /96

AVIATION

(06Z TAFS) Issued at 1218 AM CDT Thu Jun 4 2026

VFR conditions are expected to prevail through Thursday evening. Easterly winds up to 5-10 knots at the coast, lower further inland, increase to 10-15 knots on Thursday. /29

MARINE

Issued at 1249 PM CDT Wed Jun 3 2026

Easterly flow prevails through Thursday. Small craft conditions develop early this morning in the strengthening easterly flow and persist through Friday across the bays, waterways, and Gulf waters. Onshore flow develops Friday through early next week. Expect locally higher winds and seas near thunderstorms. BB-8

PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS

Mobile 83 67 84 72 / 0 10 30 40 Pensacola 83 71 84 74 / 0 10 20 40 Destin 85 72 84 74 / 0 10 20 30 Evergreen 83 61 87 67 / 0 0 0 10 Waynesboro 83 62 86 68 / 0 0 10 20 Camden 82 61 86 67 / 0 0 0 10 Crestview 84 63 88 67 / 0 0 10 10

MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

AL...High Rip Current Risk through Sunday morning for ALZ265-266.

High Surf Advisory until 4 AM CDT Saturday for ALZ265-266.

FL...High Rip Current Risk through Sunday morning for FLZ202-204-206.

High Surf Advisory until 4 AM CDT Saturday for FLZ202-204-206.

MS...None. GM...Small Craft Advisory until 7 PM CDT Friday for GMZ630>634-655- 675.

Small Craft Advisory until 11 AM CDT this morning for GMZ635-636.

Small Craft Advisory until midnight CDT Friday night for GMZ650- 670.