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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Cleveland, OH

September 11, 20144 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

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.

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, 8.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2014-09-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 243 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 00:00Z on 2014-09-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 8:30 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEAshland, Huron, Lorain27 min
Sep 10, 9:52 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningCLELorain6 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.