Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 11, 2013, 12:23 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2013, 12:23 PM EDT (16:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2013, 8:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
County Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 535 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
488 WHUS41 KOKX 111623 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1223 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013 ...STRONG RIP CURRENT ACTIVITY THROUGH THIS EVENING... NYZ080-081-120100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0003.130611T1623Z-130612T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 1223 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. IMPLIES THAT WIND AND/OR WAVE CONDITIONS SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF VERY STRONG RIP CURRENTS. THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING TO ANYONE WHO ENTERS THE SURF. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...MODERATE. IMPLIES THAT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
743 WHUS41 KOKX 120020 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 820 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013 NYZ080-081-120130- /O.CAN.KOKX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-130612T0100Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 820 PM EDT TUE JUN 11 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. WITH THE BEACH DAY COMING TO A CLOSE THE RIP CURRENT HAZARD STATEMENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS WILL GRADUALLY LESSEN OVERNIGHT...WITH A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS ON WEDNESDAY. $$
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.