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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS New York, NY

September 26, 20144 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Sep 26, 2014, 3:07 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 15 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 2014, 3:07 AM EDT (07:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 2014, 6:18 PM EDT
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY, Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 56 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 00:00Z on 2014-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2014-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 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
455 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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.

266 
WHUS41 KOKX 260707
CFWOKX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
307 AM EDT FRI SEP 26 2014

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENT DEVELOPMENT TODAY...

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-270000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0016.140926T0707Z-140927T0000Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
307 AM EDT FRI SEP 26 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

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

* LOCATIONS...THE OCEANFRONT OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT.

* LIGHTNING RISK...NONE.

* TIMING...TODAY.

$$

JMC
1 follow-up statement
051 
WHUS41 KOKX 262218
CFWOKX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
618 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 2014

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-262330-
/O.CAN.KOKX.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-140927T0000Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
618 PM EDT FRI SEP 26 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH
RIP CURRENT RISK. WINDS DIRECTED MORE OFFSHORE WILL CONTRIBUTE
TO LESS TO RIP CURRENT FORMATION...ALLOWING FOR THE RIP CURRENT
RISK TO NOW BE MODERATE.

$$

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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.