Alert archive / Ohio / Rip Current Statements in 2014
Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Aug 13, 2014, 4:18 AM EDT for Erie County, Pennsylvania; 4 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2014, 4:18 AM EDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2014, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 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 08:20 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, 8.3 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
457 WHUS41 KCLE 130818 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 418 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-131630- /O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0014.140813T0818Z-140814T0200Z/ LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 418 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATION...LAKE ERIE FROM VERMILION EAST THROUGH RIPLEY NEW YORK. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH RISK. * WAVE HEIGHT... WAVES BUILDING TO 3 TO 6 FEET. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
3 follow-up statements
443 WHUS41 KCLE 131509 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1109 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-132315- /O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-140814T0200Z/ LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 1109 AM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...LAKE ERIE FROM VERMILION EAST THROUGH RIPLEY NEW YORK. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH RISK. * WAVE HEIGHT... WAVES BUILDING TO 3 TO 6 FEET. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
185 WHUS41 KCLE 131948 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 348 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-140200- /O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-140814T0200Z/ LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 348 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...LAKE ERIE FROM VERMILION EAST THROUGH RIPLEY NEW YORK. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH RISK. * WAVE HEIGHT... WAVES 3 TO 6 FEET FOR MUCH OF THE EVENING. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
059 WHUS41 KCLE 140205 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1005 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-140315- /O.EXP.KCLE.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-140814T0200Z/ LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 1005 PM EDT WED AUG 13 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... WINDS AND WAVES HAVE DECREASED ENOUGH TO ALLOW THE RIP CURRENT TO DECREASE. HOWEVER WINDS AND WAVES WILL INCREASE AGAIN THURSDAY MORNING WITH A MODERATE TO HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS RETURNING FOR THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKESHORE. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 4:22 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 41 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Ohio, 2014Rip Current Statements in Pennsylvania, 2014Every rip current statement in 2014
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.