Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2015
Rip Current Statement 6, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 25, 2015, 4:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Jul 26, 2015, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 25, 2015, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2015, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2015, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 20:50 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
190 WHUS41 KOKX 252045 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 445 PM EDT SAT JUL 25 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK SUNDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-260830- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0006.150726T1000Z-150727T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 445 PM EDT SAT JUL 25 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...2 TO 4 FT IN THE MORNING...BUILDING TO 3 TO 5 FT IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...THROUGH THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENING...WITH THE HIGHEST RISK IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT... BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TOWARD THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
1 follow-up statement
154 WHUS41 KOKX 260751 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 351 AM EDT SUN JUL 26 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-270100- /O.EXT.KOKX.RP.S.0006.150726T1700Z-150727T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 351 AM EDT SUN JUL 26 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...AROUND 2 FT IN THE MORNING...BUILDING TO 3 TO 4 FT BY LATE AFTERNOON. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...LATE AFTERNOON INTO EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND ONLY SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT... BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TOWARD THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
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.