Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2013
Rip Current Statement 4, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 14, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 17:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
545 WHUS41 KOKX 141730 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 130 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2013 ...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT ATLANTIC BEACHES INTO THIS EVENING... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-150100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0004.130614T1730Z-130615T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 130 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 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...THE OCEAN BEACHES OF BROOKLYN...QUEENS...NASSAU AND SUFFOLK COUNTIES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...NONE. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 8:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Richmond | 54 min |
| Jun 13, 8:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 118 min |
| Jun 13, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 61 min | |
| Jun 13, 9:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk | 88 min |
| Jun 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | OKX | 10 hr | |
| Jun 14, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | OKX | Orange | 83 min |
| Jun 14, 4:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 114 min |
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.