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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS New York, NY

July 10, 20114 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 10, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2011, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
10 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 16:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1471 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 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.

140 
WHUS41 KOKX 101600
CFWOKX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1200 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2011

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY...

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-110200-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0008.110710T1600Z-110711T0200Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
1200 PM EDT SUN JUL 10 2011

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

* LOCATIONS...THE ATLANTIC SHORE OF LONG ISLAND AND NEW YORK CITY. 

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT.

* LIGHTNING RISK...NONE.

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.

$$

JMC

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 3:42 PM EDTHeat AdvisoryOKXBronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 3 more51 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.