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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS New York, NY

July 18, 20164 counties in New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 18, 2016, 5:19 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 18, 2016, 5:19 AM EDT (09:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 16 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 09:21 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, 9.3 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 753 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted.

302 
WHUS41 KOKX 180919
CFWOKX

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
519 AM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

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

NYZ075-080-081-178-179-190100-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0002.160718T0919Z-160719T0100Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
519 AM EDT MON JUL 18 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...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES OF NEW YORK CITY AND LONG
  ISLAND.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH.

* SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET.

* LIGHTNING RISK...MODERATE.

* TIMING...TODAY INTO 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

765 
WHUS41 KOKX 190056
CFWOKX

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
856 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016


NYZ075-080-081-178-179-190200-
/O.EXP.KOKX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-160719T0100Z/
KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU-
856 PM EDT MON JUL 18 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE WITH
NIGHTFALL.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 3:52 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	OKX		19 hr
Jul 18, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	34 min
Jul 18, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	28 min
Jul 18, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Orange	36 min
Jul 18, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	36 min
Jul 18, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Putnam	30 min
Jul 18, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Putnam, Westchester	37 min
Jul 18, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Westchester	30 min
Jul 18, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		50 min
Jul 18, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, Richmond	35 min
Jul 18, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Kings, Queens	20 min
Jul 18, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		39 min
Jul 18, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		64 min
Jul 18, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	OKX	Nassau	23 min
Jul 18, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	OKX		94 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in New York, 2016 Every rip current statement in 2016

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.