Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 17, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 23, 2017, 12:06 PM EDT for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2017, 12:06 PM EDT (16:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2017, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 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 16:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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
- 99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted.
724 WHUS41 KOKX 231606 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1206 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THIS AFTERNOON AT THE SUFFOLK COUNTY OCEAN BEACHES... NYZ080-081-232200- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0017.170823T1606Z-170823T2200Z/ SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 1206 PM EDT WED AUG 23 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...SUFFOLK COUNTY OCEAN BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 4 FT. * LIGHTNING RISK...NONE. * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON. 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 44 min |
| Aug 22, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 43 min |
| Aug 22, 9:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 45 min |
| Aug 22, 9:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 3 hr |
| Aug 22, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond | 46 min |
| Aug 22, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 65 min | |
| Aug 22, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Putnam | 47 min |
| Aug 23, 12:38 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | OKX | 82 min |
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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.