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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS New York, NY

August 29, 2014Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 29, 2014, 11:50 AM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 29, 2014, 11:50 AM EDT (15:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-08-29Temperature 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1317 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 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.

371 
WHUS41 KOKX 291550
CFWOKX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1150 AM EDT FRI AUG 29 2014

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS...

NYZ081-300000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0012.140829T1550Z-140830T0000Z/
SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
1150 AM EDT FRI AUG 29 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC FACING BEACHES OF EASTERN LONG
  ISLAND...PARTICULARLY EAST OF SHINNECOCK INLET.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...AROUND 4 FT.

* LIGHTNING RISK...NONE.

* TIMING...THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL GRADUALLY
  IMPROVE THIS EVENING.

$$

JMC

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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.