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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Cleveland, OH
NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Sep 11, 2014, 4:04 AM EDT for 4 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Sep 11, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 2014, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 11, 2014, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 11, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 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 08:04 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 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
- 243 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1029 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
786 WHUS41 KCLE 110804 CFWCLE URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 404 AM EDT THU SEP 11 2014 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK TODAY... .A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CROSS THE REGION TODAY WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS. THIS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE DAY. OHZ010>012-089-PAZ001-111615- /O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0019.140911T1000Z-140911T2000Z/ LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE- 404 AM EDT THU SEP 11 2014 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * LOCATION...THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE FROM VERMILION TO RIPLEY. * A RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * WAVE HEIGHT...4 TO 8 FEET EARLY THIS MORNING THEN 3 TO 5 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Ashland, Huron, Lorain | 27 min |
| Sep 10, 9:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CLE | Lorain | 6 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.