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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Cleveland, OH

August 23, 20145 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Aug 23, 2014, 10:45 AM EDT for 5 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 23, 2014, 10:45 AM EDT (14:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2014, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

Counties Ashtabula County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Lake County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Erie County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:45 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 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 12:00Z on 2014-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2014-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 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
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
570 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 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.

477 
WHUS41 KCLE 231445
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1045 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014

OHZ009>012-089-PAZ001-232245-
/O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0017.140823T1445Z-140824T0200Z/
ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
1045 AM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A RIP
CURRENT RISK FOR THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE UNTIL 10 PM THIS
EVENING.

* LOCATION...FROM THE ISLANDS TO RIPELY NEW YORK.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE.

* WAVE HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FEET.

* OTHER HAZARDS...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A THUNDERSTORM.

$$

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
1 follow-up statement
730 
WHUS41 KCLE 231959
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
359 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014

OHZ009>012-089-PAZ001-240200-
/O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-140824T0200Z/
ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
359 PM EDT SAT AUG 23 2014

...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS
EVENING ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE...

* LOCATION...FROM THE ISLANDS TO RIPELY NEW YORK.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE.

* WAVE HEIGHT...2 TO 4 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

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 22, 8:33 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLEHolmes4 hr
Aug 23, 12:30 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCLEHolmes6 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.