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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 15, 2014Ashtabula County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

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.

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, 8.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 29 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.