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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 16, 2014Ashtabula County, Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Jul 16, 2014, 3:21 AM EDT for Ashtabula County, Cuyahoga County, Lake County, Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 2014, 3:21 AM EDT (07:21 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2014, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Cleveland, OH

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2014-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 23 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 2014-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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.

518 
WHUS41 KCLE 160721
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
321 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2014

OHZ011-012-089-PAZ001-161530-
/O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0008.140716T0721Z-140716T1800Z/
CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
321 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2014

...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A MODERATE
RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS
AFTERNOON.

* LOCATION...FROM CUYAHOGA COUNTY EAST TO ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA.

* A RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE RISK.

* SURF HEIGHT...WAVES 3 TO 5 FEET SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 3 FEET.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A MODERATE RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS MEANS THAT RIP CURRENTS ARE POSSIBLE AND ANY ONE ENTERING
THE WATER COULD RISK BEING SWEPT OUT INTO OPEN WATER IN STRONG
CURRENTS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFE GUARDS AND LOCAL OFFICIALS WHERE
PRESENT. CONSIDER STAYING OUT OF THE WATER WHEN WAVES ARE PRESENT
TO AVOID BEING CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT.

$$

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
1 follow-up statement
024 
WHUS41 KCLE 161344
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
944 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2014

OHZ011-012-089-PAZ001-161900-
/O.EXT.KCLE.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-140716T1900Z/
CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-
944 AM EDT WED JUL 16 2014

...RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...

* LOCATION...FROM CUYAHOGA COUNTY EAST TO ERIE COUNTY 
  PENNSYLVANIA.

* A RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE RISK.

* SURF HEIGHT...WAVES 2 TO 4 FEET SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 3 FEET.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...A MODERATE RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS MEANS THAT RIP CURRENTS ARE POSSIBLE AND ANY ONE
ENTERING THE WATER COULD RISK BEING SWEPT OUT INTO OPEN WATER IN
STRONG CURRENTS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFE GUARDS AND LOCAL
OFFICIALS WHERE PRESENT. CONSIDER STAYING OUT OF THE WATER WHEN
WAVES ARE PRESENT TO AVOID BEING CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT.

$$

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
Jul 16, 5:23 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCLE6 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.