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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Aug 15, 2014, 4:21 AM EDT for Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2014, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Cleveland, OH
Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Lake County, OH, Erie County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
413 WHUS41 KCLE 150821 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 421 AM EDT FRI AUG 15 2014 OHZ012-089-PAZ001-151630- /O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0016.140815T0821Z-140816T0000Z/ LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 421 AM EDT FRI AUG 15 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...ON LAKE ERIE FROM WILLOWICK OHIO TO RIPLEY NEW YORK. SOME BEACHES IN THIS AREA INCLUDE HEADLANDS...ASHTABULA...AND PRESQUE ISLE. * RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE. * WAVE HEIGHT... 2 TO 4 FEET. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. $$ PLEASE VISIT THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE NEW RIP CURRENT HAZARD... HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SURVEY/NWS-SURVEY.PHP?CODE=RCVTECCHM
2 follow-up statements
029 WHUS41 KCLE 151352 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 952 AM EDT FRI AUG 15 2014 OHZ012-089-PAZ001-152200- /O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-140816T0000Z/ LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 952 AM EDT FRI AUG 15 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...ON LAKE ERIE FROM WILLOWICK OHIO TO RIPLEY NEW YORK. SOME BEACHES IN THIS AREA INCLUDE HEADLANDS... ASHTABULA...AND PRESQUE ISLE. * RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE. * WAVE HEIGHT... 2 TO 4 FEET. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. $$ 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 LOMBARDY
773 WHUS41 KCLE 151946 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 346 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2014 OHZ012-089-PAZ001-160000- /O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-140816T0000Z/ LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 346 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATION...ON LAKE ERIE FROM WILLOWICK OHIO TO RIPLEY NEW YORK. SOME BEACHES IN THIS AREA INCLUDE HEADLANDS... ASHTABULA...AND PRESQUE ISLE. * RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE. * WAVE HEIGHT... 2 TO 4 FEET. * TIMING...THROUGH 8 PM THIS 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
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.