Alert archive / Maine / Rip Current Statements in 2021
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Sep 19, 2021, 3:29 AM EDT for Rockingham County, New Hampshire; 5 counties in Maine. It took effect at Sep 19, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2021, 3:29 AM EDT (07:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 19, 2021, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 690 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
725 WHUS41 KGYX 190729 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 329 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-191530- /O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0001.210919T1000Z-210919T2200Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 329 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln and Knox Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
117 WHUS41 KGYX 191110 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 710 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-191915- /O.CON.KGYX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210919T2200Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 710 AM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. In Maine, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox and Coastal York Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
301 WHUS41 KGYX 191858 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 258 PM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-192200- /O.CON.KGYX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-210919T2200Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 258 PM EDT Sun Sep 19 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. In Maine, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox and Coastal York Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't 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. && $$ Legro
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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.