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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS New York, NY

July 23, 2016Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 23, 2016, 12:27 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2016, 12:27 PM EDT (16:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS New York, NY

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1872 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

170 
WHUS41 KOKX 231627
CFWOKX

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
1227 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING...

NYZ080-081-240000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0004.160723T1627Z-160724T0000Z/
SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-
1227 PM EDT SAT JUL 23 2016

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

* LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES IN SUFFOLK COUNTY NEW YORK.

* RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH

* SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 4 FEET.

* LIGHTNING RISK...NONE.

* TIMING...RIP CURRENT RISK WILL CONTINUE HIGH THROUGH 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.

&&

$$
GC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	OKX	Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond	24 hr

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.