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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Cleveland, OH

July 23, 20147 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this rip current statement at Jul 23, 2014, 10:10 AM EDT for 7 counties in Ohio; Erie County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

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

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

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2014-07-23Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2014-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 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.

842 
WHUS41 KCLE 231410
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
1010 AM EDT WED JUL 23 2014


OHZ003-007-009>012-089-PAZ001-232215-
/O.NEW.KCLE.RP.S.0009.140723T1410Z-140724T0200Z/
LUCAS-OTTAWA-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-
NORTHERN ERIE-
1010 AM EDT WED JUL 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...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATION...LAKE ERIE SHORELINE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RIPLEY NEW YORK.

* A RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE RISK.

* SURF HEIGHT...WAVES BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FEET BY TONIGHT.

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
1 follow-up statement
708 
WHUS41 KCLE 231905
CFWCLE

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
305 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2014

OHZ003-007-009>012-089-PAZ001-240200-
/O.CON.KCLE.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-140724T0200Z/
LUCAS-OTTAWA-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-
NORTHERN ERIE-
305 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2014

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

* LOCATION...LAKE ERIE SHORELINE FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RIPLEY NEW 
  YORK.

* A RIP CURRENT RISK...MODERATE RISK.

* SURF HEIGHT...WAVES 3 TO 5 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 23, 9:15 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryCLE31 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.