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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 3, 2013Erie County, Pennsylvania; 4 counties in Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Sep 3, 2013, 3:06 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania; 4 counties in Ohio. It took effect at Sep 3, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 3, 2013, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 3, 2013, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 3, 2013, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:04 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2013-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1230 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2013-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1230 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

831 
WHUS41 KCLE 030706
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
306 AM EDT TUE SEP 3 2013


OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-031515-
/O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0004.130903T1200Z-130904T0000Z/
LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
306 AM EDT TUE SEP 3 2013

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH
THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING
THROUGH THIS EVENING.

* LOCATION...FROM VERMILION TO RIPLEY.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE RISK.

* SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET UNTIL LATE TODAY.



$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 3, 3:06 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCLE13 hr

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Ohio, 2013Rip Current Statements in Pennsylvania, 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.