Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2021
Rip Current Statement 10, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jul 9, 2021, 3:34 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 29 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2021, 3:34 PM EDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2021, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 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 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
305 WHUS41 KOKX 091934 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 334 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021 NYZ075-178-179-100100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0010.210709T1934Z-210710T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 334 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties. * WHEN...Until 9 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and 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 yell or wave for help. && $$ NYZ080-081-100930- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0010.210709T1934Z-210711T0100Z/ Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- 334 PM EDT Fri Jul 9 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Southwest Suffolk and Southeast Suffolk Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
2 follow-up statements
268 WHUS41 KOKX 100745 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 345 AM EDT Sat Jul 10 2021 NYZ080-081-110100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-210711T0100Z/ Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- 345 AM EDT Sat Jul 10 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Southeast Suffolk and Southwest Suffolk Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and 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 yell or wave for help. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
837 WHUS41 KOKX 110058 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 858 PM EDT Sat Jul 10 2021 NYZ080-081-110200- /O.EXP.KOKX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-210711T0100Z/ Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- 858 PM EDT Sat Jul 10 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... The high rip current risk will expire. $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, New York, Westchester | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | New York | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 84 min | |
| Jul 9, 5:30 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:37 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 83 min | |
| Jul 9, 5:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 65 min | |
| Jul 9, 6:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 90 min | |
| Jul 9, 6:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 62 min | |
| Jul 9, 6:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Suffolk | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:22 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 53 min | |
| Jul 9, 8:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond and 2 more | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 8:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 9:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Suffolk | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 10:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Suffolk | 111 min |
| Jul 9, 12:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | OKX | Suffolk | 77 min |
| Jul 9, 2:09 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 24 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.