Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2019
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 4, 2019, 4:15 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Jun 5, 2019, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2019, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 5, 2019, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2019, 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 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
988 WHUS41 KOKX 042015 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 415 PM EDT Tue Jun 4 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ON WEDNESDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-050415- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0002.190605T1000Z-190606T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwestern Suffolk-Southeastern Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 415 PM EDT Tue Jun 4 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... The National Weather Service in New York NY has issued a High Rip Current Risk, which is in effect from Wednesday morning through Wednesday evening. * LOCATIONS...The Atlantic beaches of NYC and Long Island. * SURF AND RIP CURRENT RISK...High. * TIMING...6am through 9pm Wednesday. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
926 WHUS41 KOKX 050744 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 344 AM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ON WEDNESDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-052100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0002.190605T1000Z-190606T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwestern Suffolk-Southeastern Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 344 AM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...The Atlantic beaches of NYC and Long Island. * SURF AND RIP CURRENT RISK...High. * TIMING...6am through 9pm Wednesday. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in sandbars and near structures such as groins, jetties, and piers. Talk to lifeguards and beach officials to learn about any surf hazards and heed their advice. Pay attention to flags and posted signs and swim in life guarded areas. Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
881 WHUS41 KOKX 051422 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 1022 AM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK ON WEDNESDAY... NYZ075-080-081-178-179-060100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-190606T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwestern Suffolk-Southeastern Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 1022 AM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...The Atlantic beaches of NYC and Long Island. * SURF AND RIP CURRENT RISK...High. * TIMING...through 9pm EDT 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 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. && $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in New York, 2019Every rip current statement in 2019
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.