Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2011
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Aug 25, 2011, 5:03 PM EDT for Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island; 4 counties in Massachusetts. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2011, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2011, 5:36 AM EDT
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
207 WHUS41 KBOX 252103 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 503 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2011 ...HIGH RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND ROUGH SURF... .THE COMBINATION OF GUSTY SOUTH WINDS THURSDAY AND THE FIRST SET OF SWELLS FROM HURRICANE IRENE HAVE INCREASED THE RISK FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND ROUGH SURF AT SOUTH FACING OCEAN BEACHES OF RHODE ISLAND AND SOUTHEAST MASSACHUSETTS. THE RISK OF STRONG RIP CURRENTS AND ROUGH SURF WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY AND WILL LIKELY INCREASE FURTHER SATURDAY AND ESPECIALLY SUNDAY. THIS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN SWIMMING RESTRICTIONS AND BEACH CLOSURES BY SUNDAY. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. RIP CURRENTS CAN BECOME LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-260515- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0002.110825T2103Z-110826T1000Z/ SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 503 PM EDT THU AUG 25 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * LOCATION...SOUTH FACING OCEAN BEACHES OF RI AND SOUTHEAST MA. * RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE TO HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FT WITH A FEW BREAKERS UP TO 7 FT. * TIMING AND TIDES...BEGINNING THURSDAY AND BECOMING MORE DANGEROUS INTO THE WEEKEND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. RIP CURRENTS CAN BECOME LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE (USE LOWERCASE LETTERS) TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM && $$ NOCERA
1 follow-up statement
786 WHUS41 KBOX 260936 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 536 AM EDT FRI AUG 26 2011 MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-261045- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-110826T1000Z/ SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-BARNSTABLE MA-DUKES MA-NANTUCKET MA- WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 536 AM EDT FRI AUG 26 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... A HURRICANE WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE REGION. THEREFORE...THE RIP CURRENT HEADLINE IS NO LONGER NEEDED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 54 min |
| Aug 25, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 51 min |
| Aug 25, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Hampshire | 65 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Massachusetts, 2011Rip Current Statements in Rhode Island, 2011Every rip current statement in 2011
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.