Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2012
Rip Current Statement 7, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 12, 2012, 5:28 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2012, 5:28 AM EDT (09:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 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 09:28 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 00:00Z, 9.5 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
- 405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 865 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
681 WHUS41 KOKX 120928 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 528 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR NASSAU AND SUFFOLK OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ080-081-179-130100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0007.120812T0928Z-120813T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 528 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
320
WHUS41 KOKX 121531
CFWOKX
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1131 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2012
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK AT THE OCEAN BEACHES TODAY...
NYZ075-178-130100-
/O.EXA.KOKX.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-120813T0100Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHERN QUEENS-
1131 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2012
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING.
* LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN AND SOUTHERN
QUEENS.
* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.
* SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT.
* LIGHTNING RISK...LOW.
* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS...
JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO
LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION
TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS.
IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE
FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO
NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG
SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY.
&&
$$
NYZ080-081-179-130100-
/O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-120813T0100Z/
SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
1131 AM EDT SUN AUG 12 2012
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...
* LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF NASSAU AND SUFFOLK
COUNTIES.
* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.
* SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT.
* LIGHTNING RISK...LOW.
* TIMING...THROUGH THIS 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.
&&
$$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.