Alert archive / Indiana / Rip Current Statements in 2011
Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this rip current statement at Jul 23, 2011, 8:09 AM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 2011, 8:09 AM CDT (13:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2011, 2:29 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 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 13:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 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
- 2622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
505 WHUS43 KLOT 231309 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 809 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2011 ...RIP CURRENTS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING... .SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM EARLIER THIS MORNING CREATED ELEVATED WINDS AND WAVES OVER LAKE MICHIGAN. DESPITE THE SOUTH WINDS EXPECTED THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON IN THE NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT...RIP CURRENTS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY THROUGH THIS EVENING. INZ001-002-232115- /O.NEW.KLOT.RP.S.0006.110723T1309Z-110724T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 809 AM CDT SAT JUL 23 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...UNTIL THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...INCREASED THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS. 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. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
1 follow-up statement
790 WHUS43 KLOT 231929 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 229 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2011 INZ001-002-232030- /O.CAN.KLOT.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-110724T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 229 PM CDT SAT JUL 23 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THERE IS NO LONGER AN INCREASED THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS...WITH WINDS AND WAVES CONTINUING TO BOTH DIMINISH AND SUBSIDE THIS AFTERNOON. $$ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lake | 6 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lake, Porter | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:40 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | LOT | Lake, Porter | 32 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Lake | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | LOT | Lake, Porter | 18 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Jasper | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 6:41 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LOT | Jasper, Newton | 3 hr |
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.