Alert archive / Ohio / Rip Current Statements in 2014
Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Cleveland, OH
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:15 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CLE | 31 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.