Alert archive / North Carolina / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this rip current statement at May 9, 2019, 3:58 AM EDT for Currituck County, North Carolina; City of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2019, 3:58 AM EDT (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2019, 11:56 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
869 WHUS41 KAKQ 090758 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 358 AM EDT Thu May 9 2019 NCZ102-VAZ098-100000- /O.NEW.KAKQ.BH.S.0001.190509T0758Z-190510T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KAKQ.RP.S.0001.190509T0758Z-190510T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 358 AM EDT Thu May 9 2019 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a Beach Hazards Statement, which is in effect through this evening. A High Rip Current Risk has also been issued. This High Rip Current Risk is in effect through this evening. * HAZARDS...Dangerous rip currents. * LOCATIONS...Virginia Beach to Corolla. * TIMING AND TIDES...The most likely time for strong rip currents will be a couple hours either side of low tide, which will occur late this afternoon. * SURF HEIGHT...3 to 4 feet. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If caught in a rip current remain calm. Don't fight the current. Swim in a direction following the shoreline. When out of the current, swim back to shore. If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
1 follow-up statement
302 WHUS41 KAKQ 091556 CFWAKQ Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Wakefield VA 1156 AM EDT Thu May 9 2019 NCZ102-VAZ098-091700- /O.CAN.KAKQ.BH.S.0001.000000T0000Z-190510T0000Z/ /O.CAN.KAKQ.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-190510T0000Z/ Eastern Currituck-Virginia Beach- 1156 AM EDT Thu May 9 2019 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The National Weather Service in Wakefield has cancelled the Beach Hazards Statement. The High Rip Current Risk has been cancelled. There remains a moderate rip current risk at Virginia Beach and the northern Outer Banks this afternoon. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 3:58 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | AKQ | Currituck | 8 hr |
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.