Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 5, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 4, 2012, 4:07 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Aug 5, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 2012, 4:07 PM EDT (20:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 5, 2012, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 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
- 2028 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
352 WHUS41 KOKX 042007 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 407 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK SUNDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-050900- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0005.120805T1000Z-120806T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 407 PM EDT SAT AUG 4 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT IN THE MORNING BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * LIGHTNING RISK...MODERATE * TIMING...SUNDAY WITH THE MAIN RISK DURING THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EVENING. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
765 WHUS41 KOKX 050837 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 437 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK TODAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-052100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0005.120805T1000Z-120806T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 437 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 3 FT IN THE MORNING...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * LIGHTNING RISK...MODERATE ACROSS THE NYC BEACHES LATE TODAY...OTHERWISE LOW. * TIMING...THE HIGHEST RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
249 WHUS41 KOKX 051547 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1147 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK TODAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-060000- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-120806T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 1147 AM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 3 FT BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT BY LATE AFTERNOON. * LIGHTNING RISK...MODERATE ACROSS THE NYC BEACHES LATE TODAY... OTHERWISE LOW. * TIMING...THE HIGHEST RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL BE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. 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. && $$ JMC
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | OKX | 13 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New York, 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.