Alert archive / Rhode Island / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at May 24, 2013, 6:02 AM EDT for Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island; Bristol County, Massachusetts. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2013, 6:02 AM EDT (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2013, 4:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Bristol County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:05 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
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
273 WHUS41 KBOX 241002 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 602 AM EDT FRI MAY 24 2013 MAZ020-RIZ006>008-241815- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0001.130524T1002Z-130525T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 602 AM EDT FRI MAY 24 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...EXPOSED SOUTH-FACING BEACHES BETWEEN MAINLY BETWEEN WESTPORT MA AND WESTERLY RI. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FEET. * TIMING AND TIDES...STRONGEST RIP CURRENTS THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS 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. PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE (USE LOWERCASE LETTERS) TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
1 follow-up statement
556 WHUS41 KBOX 242055 CFWBOX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 455 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 2013 MAZ020-RIZ006>008-242200- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-130525T0000Z/ SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-WASHINGTON RI-NEWPORT RI-BLOCK ISLAND RI- 455 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 9:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 12 hr |
| May 24, 2:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Providence | 84 min |
| May 23, 9:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Barnstable | 47 min |
| May 24, 3:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 3 hr |
| May 24, 4:02 AM EDT | Gale Watch | BOX | 24 hr | |
| May 24, 5:31 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:54 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 4 hr | |
| May 24, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk | 62 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Rhode Island, 2013Rip Current Statements in Massachusetts, 2013Every rip current statement in 2013
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.