Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 15, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 19, 2017, 3:25 AM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It took effect at Aug 19, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2017, 3:25 AM EDT (07:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 19, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2017, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 07:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1846 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 486 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted.
848 WHUS41 KOKX 190725 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 325 AM EDT SAT AUG 19 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FOR OCEAN BEACHES OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND TODAY... NYZ080-081-200000- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0015.170819T1000Z-170820T0000Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 325 AM EDT SAT AUG 19 2017 ...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...OCEAN BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...NONE. * TIMING...TODAY. 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 SANDBARS AND NEAR 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. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...RELAX AND FLOAT...AND DO NOT SWIM AGAINST THE CURRENT. IF ABLE...SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE...FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. && $$
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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.