Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2015
Rip Current Statement 8, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 1, 2015, 12:40 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2015, 12:40 PM EDT (16:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 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 16:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
844 WHUS41 KOKX 011640 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 1240 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 ...STRONG RIP CURRENTS AT THE OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-020100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0008.150801T1640Z-150802T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 1240 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG ISLAND. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 4 FEET. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW TOWARD EVENING ACROSS EASTERN LONG ISLAND. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
331 WHUS41 KOKX 020102 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE UPTON NY 902 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-020215- /O.EXP.KOKX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-150802T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 902 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:57 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 12 hr |
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.