Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 15, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Sep 21, 2013, 4:41 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Sep 22, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2013, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 22, 2013, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2013, 9:19 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 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 20:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957 WHUS41 KOKX 212041 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 441 PM EDT SAT SEP 21 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON SUNDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-221100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0015.130922T1000Z-130923T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 441 PM EDT SAT SEP 21 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...HIGHEST WAVES AND RIP CURRENT RISK IN THE MORNING TO EARLY AFTERNOON. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
722 WHUS41 KOKX 220809 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 409 AM EDT SUN SEP 22 2013 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-222015- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0015.130922T1000Z-130923T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 409 AM EDT SUN SEP 22 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS... NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...HIGHEST WAVES AND HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN THE MORNING TO EARLY AFTERNOON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
463 WHUS41 KOKX 221319 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 919 AM EDT SUN SEP 22 2013 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-221430- /O.CAN.KOKX.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-130923T0000Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 919 AM EDT SUN SEP 22 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK AS LATEST DATA AND FORECAST INFORMATION SUPPORT A MODERATE RISK. IF VENTURING TO THE OCEAN BEACHES TODAY...BE EXTRA CAUTIOUS IF THINKING OF GOING IN THE WATER. LIFEGUARDS ARE NOT ON DUTY. WITH WAVES OF 2 TO 3 FEET AND AN EAST SOUTHEAST SWELL...THERE IS A MODERATE POTENTIAL FOR RIP CURRENTS. EVEN THE MOST EXPERIENCED SWIMMER SHOULD NEVER SWIM ALONE. $$
Nearby
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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.