Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2017
Rip Current Statement 19, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Sep 2, 2017, 4:21 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Sep 3, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2017, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 3, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 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 20:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
496 WHUS41 KOKX 022021 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 421 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT ATLANTIC BEACHES FROM SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-030430- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0019.170903T1000Z-170904T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 421 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK, WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW * TIMING...SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY 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. && $$ MALOIT
2 follow-up statements
720 WHUS41 KOKX 030211 CFWOKX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1011 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT ATLANTIC BEACHES SUNDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-031015- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0019.170903T1000Z-170904T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 1011 PM EDT SAT SEP 2 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM EDT SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. TALK TO LIFEGUARDS AND BEACH OFFICIALS TO LEARN ABOUT ANY SURF HAZARDS AND HEED THEIR ADVICE. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS AND SWIM IN LIFE GUARDED AREAS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT... BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TOWARD THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY. && $$
534 WHUS41 KOKX 030850 CFWOKX URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 450 AM EDT SUN SEP 3 2017 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT ATLANTIC BEACHES THROUGH THIS EVENING... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-040100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0019.170903T1000Z-170904T0100Z/ KINGS (BROOKLYN)-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHERN QUEENS-SOUTHERN NASSAU- 450 AM EDT SUN SEP 3 2017 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...ATLANTIC OCEAN BEACHES. * RIP CURRENT RISK...HIGH. * SURF HEIGHT...3 TO 5 FEET. * LIGHTNING RISK...LOW. * TIMING...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. && $$
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.