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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Chicago, IL
NWS Chicago, IL issued this rip current statement at Aug 16, 2012, 3:48 PM CDT for Lake County, Porter County, Indiana. It took effect at Aug 16, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2012, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 16, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 817 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
739 WHUS43 KLOT 162048 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 348 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2012 INZ001-002-170500- /O.NEW.KLOT.RP.S.0011.120817T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 348 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHICAGO HAS ISSUED A INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
075 WHUS43 KLOT 170206 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 906 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2012 INZ001-002-171015- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 906 PM CDT THU AUG 16 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
915 WHUS43 KLOT 170829 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 329 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 INZ001-002-171630- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 329 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... 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. && $$
819 WHUS43 KLOT 171516 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 1016 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 INZ001-002-172330- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 1016 AM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
545 WHUS43 KLOT 172059 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 359 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 INZ001-002-180000- /O.CON.KLOT.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 359 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. 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. 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. && $$
266 WHUS43 KLOT 180022 CFWLOT LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL 722 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 INZ001-002-180130- /O.EXP.KLOT.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-120818T0000Z/ LAKE IN-PORTER- 722 PM CDT FRI AUG 17 2012 ...INCREASED RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... WINDS AND WAVES CONTINUE TO DIMINISH AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS ACROSS THE REGION AND THE THREAT OF RIP CURRENTS HAS DIMINISHED. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Chicago, IL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 9:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Jasper | 23 min |
| Aug 16, 10:04 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LOT | Benton | 26 min |
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.