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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS New York, NY

June 3, 20144 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 3, 2014, 3:22 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 2014, 3:22 AM EDT (07:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
17 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 07:28 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, 7.4 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 2014-06-03Temperature 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 125 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
137 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.

981 
WHUS41 KOKX 030722
CFWOKX

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
322 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 2014

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR OCEAN BEACHES TODAY...

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-040000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0002.140603T0722Z-140604T0000Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
322 AM EDT TUE JUN 3 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...OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...4 TO 6 FT.

* LIGHTNING RISK...HIGH FOR CITY BEACHES AND NONE ACROSS EASTERN
  LONG ISLAND BEACHES.

* TIMING...TODAY.

$$

JMC

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange52 min
Jun 3, 3:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXOrange2 hr
Jun 3, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange56 min
Jun 3, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange43 min
Jun 3, 5:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXOrange119 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningOKX42 min
Jun 3, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXBronx, Kings, New York, Putnam, Queens, Richmond and 2 more63 min
Jun 3, 5:39 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXPutnam, Westchester2 hr
Jun 3, 6:04 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXBronx, New York, Westchester116 min

Nearby

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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.