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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS New York, NY

June 18, 20114 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 18, 2011, 4:48 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Jun 18, 2011, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 2011, 4:48 AM EDT (08:48 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 18, 2011, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 18, 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
15 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 08:50 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 218 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 167 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2011-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
167 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
635 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

778 
WHUS41 KOKX 180848
CFWOKX

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
448 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 2011

...MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENT AT OCEAN BEACHES TODAY...

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-190100-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0005.110618T1000Z-110619T0100Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
448 AM EDT SAT JUN 18 2011

...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS
  IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE CONDITIONS SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT
  OF STRONGER AND MORE FREQUENT RIP CURRENTS. PLEASE SWIM ONLY IN
  LIFE GUARDED AREAS.

* SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT ACROSS WESTERN BEACHES...3 TO 5 FT
  ACROSS EASTERN BEACHES.

* LIGHTNING RISK...NONE THIS MORNING...THEN LOW THIS AFTERNOON. A
  LOW RISK OF LIGHTNING IMPLIES THAT THERE IS LITTLE CHANCE OF
  THUNDERSTORMS.


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 4:02 AM EDTSmall Craft Advisory for Hazardous SeasOKX6 hr
Jun 18, 6:48 AM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryOKX7 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.