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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 19, 2013, 4:05 PM EDT for Nassau County, Suffolk County, New York. It took effect at Jul 20, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2013, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 20, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Nassau County, NY, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1457 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1448 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
466 WHUS41 KOKX 192005 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 405 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR LONG ISLAND OCEAN BEACHES ON SATURDAY... NYZ080-081-179-201100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0011.130720T1000Z-130721T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 405 PM EDT FRI JUL 19 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS...LONG ISLAND OCEAN BEACHES * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. * LIGHTNING RISK...HIGH...MAINLY LATE * TIMING...SATURDAY 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
763 WHUS41 KOKX 200910 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 510 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTY OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ080-081-179-201715- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0011.130720T1000Z-130721T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 510 AM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTY. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. * LIGHTNING RISK...HIGH...MAINLY LATE. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
065 WHUS41 KOKX 201716 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 116 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS FOR NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTY OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ080-081-179-210100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-130721T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 116 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT THIS AFTERNOON. * LIGHTNING RISK...BECOMING HIGH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING...UNTIL 9 PM 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. && $$
564 WHUS41 KOKX 210105 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 905 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 NYZ080-081-179-210215- /O.EXP.KOKX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-130721T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 905 PM EDT SAT JUL 20 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... THE STATEMENT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AS THE BEACH DAY HAS COME TO AN END. THE HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS WILL GRADAULLY LOWER TO MODERATE OVERNIGHT. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS EXISTS FOR FOR THE LONG ISLAND BEACHES ON SUNDAY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 12:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 12:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Suffolk | 93 min |
| Jul 19, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 23 min |
| Jul 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 43 min |
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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.