Alert archive / Virginia / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this rip current statement at Jun 16, 2012, 3:43 AM EDT for City of Virginia Beach, Virginia; Currituck County, North Carolina. It took effect at Jun 16, 2012, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 2012, 3:43 AM EDT (07:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 16, 2012, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2012, 6:54 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
512 WHUS41 KAKQ 160743 CFWAKQ COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 343 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 NCZ102-VAZ098-161600- /O.NEW.KAKQ.RP.S.0002.120616T1200Z-120617T0000Z/ OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-VIRGINIA BEACH- 343 AM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...8 AM TO 8 PM SATURDAY. * LOCATION...VIRGINIA BEACH AND OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK BEACH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH 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. RIP CURRENTS CAN BECOME LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. 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...SINCE IT CAN EXHAUST AND EVEN KILL THE STRONGEST SWIMMER. && $$ 44
2 follow-up statements
452 WHUS41 KAKQ 162053 CFWAKQ COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 453 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 NCZ102-VAZ098-170900- /O.NEW.KAKQ.RP.S.0003.120617T1200Z-120618T0000Z/ /O.CON.KAKQ.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-120617T0000Z/ OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-VIRGINIA BEACH- 453 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * TIMING...8 AM TO 8 PM SUNDAY. * LOCATION...VIRGINIA BEACH AND OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK BEACH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. RIP CURRENTS CAN BECOME LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT...SINCE IT CAN EXHAUST AND EVEN KILL THE STRONGEST SWIMMER. && $$ LSA
949 WHUS41 KAKQ 162254 CFWAKQ COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 654 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 NCZ102-VAZ098-180000- /O.CAN.KAKQ.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-120617T0000Z/ /O.EXT.KAKQ.RP.S.0003.120616T2254Z-120618T0000Z/ OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK-VIRGINIA BEACH- 654 PM EDT SAT JUN 16 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * LOCATION...VIRGINIA BEACH AND OUTER BANKS CURRITUCK. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH 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. RIP CURRENTS CAN BECOME LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. 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...SINCE IT CAN EXHAUST AND EVEN KILL THE STRONGEST SWIMMER. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 10:12 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | AKQ | 18 hr | |
| Jun 16, 4:53 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | AKQ | City of Virginia Beach | 27 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Virginia, 2012Rip Current Statements in North Carolina, 2012Every rip current statement in 2012
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.