Alert archive / Indiana / Rip Current Statements in 2010
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this rip current statement at Jun 3, 2010, 3:35 AM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Jun 3, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2010, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 3, 2010, 1:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2010, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Chicago, IL
Counties Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN
The radar
The Chicago radar (KLOT), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1322 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
395 WHUS43 KLOT 030835 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 335 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 INZ001-002-031645- /O.NEW.KLOT.RP.S.0001.100603T1800Z-100604T0100Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 335 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING... NORTHERLY WINDS WILL ALLOW WAVES TO BUILD HIGH ENOUGH FOR A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING ALONG THE INDIANA SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
3 follow-up statements
729 WHUS43 KLOT 031524 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1024 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 INZ001-002-032330- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0001.100603T1800Z-100604T0100Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 1024 AM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... NORTH TO NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE A BIT EARLY THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO SOME LAKE BREEZE ENHANCEMENT. THIS WILL ALLOW WAVES TO BUILD HIGH ENOUGH FOR A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING ALONG THE INDIANA SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
453 WHUS43 KLOT 031955 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 255 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 INZ001-002-040100- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-100604T0100Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 255 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 KT WILL ALLOW WAVES HIGH ENOUGH FOR A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING ALONG THE INDIANA SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
993 WHUS43 KLOT 040106 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 806 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 INZ001-002-040215- /O.EXP.KLOT.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-100604T0100Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 806 PM CDT THU JUN 3 2010 ...RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... WINDS AND WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DIMINISH TONIGHT. HOWEVER...RIP CURRENTS CAN STILL SOMETIMES OCCUR...ESPECIALLY IN THE VICINITY OF GROINS...JETTIES...AND PIERS. KNOW HOW TO SWIM AND HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS. $$
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.