Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2011
Rip Current Statement 12, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Sep 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 7, 2011, 10:42 AM EDT (14:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 2011, 5:09 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
136 WHUS41 KOKX 071442 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1042 AM EDT WED SEP 7 2011 ...HIGH SURF AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED ON THE OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-072245- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0012.110907T1442Z-110908T0100Z/ /O.EXT.KOKX.SU.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110908T2200Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 1042 AM EDT WED SEP 7 2011 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THURSDAY... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN FACING BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...7 TO 9 FT...HIGHEST AT THE EASTERN LONG ISLAND BEACHES. * LIGHTNING RISK...NONE. * TIMING...THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. THE RISK FOR HIGH SURF WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. * IMPACTS...LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION. 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. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. 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. && $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM GOODMAN
1 follow-up statement
923 WHUS41 KOKX 072109 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 509 PM EDT WED SEP 7 2011 ...HIGH SURF AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED ON THE OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-090100- /O.CAN.KOKX.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-110908T0100Z/ /O.EXT.KOKX.SU.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-110909T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 509 PM EDT WED SEP 7 2011 ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THURSDAY... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN FACING BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...5 TO 10 FT...HIGHEST AT THE EASTERN LONG ISLAND BEACHES. * LIGHTNING RISK...NONE. * TIMING...THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. THE RISK FOR HIGH SURF WILL LIKELY CONTINUE THROUGH THE END OF THE WEEK. * IMPACTS...LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION AND DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SURF ADVISORY MEANS THAT HIGH SURF WILL AFFECT BEACHES IN THE ADVISORY AREA...PRODUCING DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS AND LOCALIZED BEACH EROSION. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 9:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Westchester | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 9:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Rockland | 3 hr |
| Sep 7, 12:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Rockland | 8 hr |
| Sep 7, 1:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Westchester | 4 hr |
| Sep 7, 4:05 AM EDT | High Surf Advisory | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk | 68 hr |
| Sep 7, 8:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Rockland | 6 hr |
| Sep 7, 2:19 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | OKX | Orange, Ulster | 6 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New York, 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.