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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Sep 10, 2016, 3:49 AM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It took effect at Sep 10, 2016, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 10, 2016, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 10, 2016, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2016, 4:27 PM EDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 347 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1247 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
807 WHUS41 KOKX 100749 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 349 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK TODAY... NYZ075-178-179-110100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0013.160910T1000Z-160911T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 349 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...THE ATLANTIC BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND NASSAU COUNTY. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...AROUND 4 FEET. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...THE RIP CURRENT RISK WILL BE HIGHEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS WINDS AND WAVES INCREASE. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
631 WHUS41 KOKX 102027 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 427 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 ...MODERATE RISK FOR DEVELOPMENT OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... NYZ075-178-179-102130- /O.CAN.KOKX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-160911T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 427 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. $$
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.