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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Chicago, IL

September 5, 2010Lake County, Porter County, Indiana; Lake County, Illinois

NWS Chicago, IL issued this rip current statement at Sep 5, 2010, 3:17 PM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana; Lake County, Illinois. It took effect at Sep 6, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 5, 2010, 3:17 PM CDT (20:17 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 6, 2010, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: Sep 5, 2010, 9:36 PM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Chicago, IL

Counties Lake County, IL, Lake County, IN, Porter County, IN

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1422 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

521 
WHUS43 KLOT 052017
CFWLOT

LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
317 PM CDT SUN SEP 5 2010


ILZ006-014-INZ001-002-060430-
/O.NEW.KLOT.RP.S.0010.100906T1200Z-100908T1200Z/
LAKE IL-COOK-LAKE IN-PORTER-
317 PM CDT SUN SEP 5 2010

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY MORNING...

WINDS AND WAVES WILL INCREASE AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM
APPROACHES THE AREA ON MONDAY. WINDS GUSTING TO 30 KNOTS DURING
THIS PERIOD WILL HELP WAVE HEIGHTS GROW AND CAUSE AN INCREASED
RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH WEDNESDAY WHEN WINDS AND WAVES ARE
FORECASTED TO SUBSIDE.

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. 

&&

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
 NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD:

 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM

$$

BMD

1 follow-up statement

531 
WHUS43 KLOT 060236
CFWLOT

LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
936 PM CDT SUN SEP 5 2010

.CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE FAVORABLE FOR RIP CURRENT DEVELOPMENT
MONDAY OR TUESDAY. 

ILZ006-014-INZ001-002-060345-
/O.CAN.KLOT.RP.S.0010.100906T1200Z-100908T1200Z/
LAKE IL-COOK-LAKE IN-PORTER-
936 PM CDT SUN SEP 5 2010

...RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

STRONG WINDS WILL BE OUT OF THE SOUTH MONDAY AND FROM THE
SOUTHWEST TUESDAY. THIS WILL GENERATE LARGE WAVES BUT THESE LARGE
WAVES WILL BE WELL OFFSHORE. WAVES ALONG THE ILLINOIS AND INDIANA
SHORELINES WILL BE LESS THAN 3 FT. THIS IS NOT FAVORABLE FOR RIP
CURRENT DEVELOPMENT. 

PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE
NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD:

 HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 5, 3:12 AM CDT	Gale Watch	LOT		25 hr
Sep 5, 3:09 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	LOT		40 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Indiana, 2010 Rip Current Statements in Illinois, 2010 Every rip current statement in 2010

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.