Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2022
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jun 8, 2022, 4:15 PM EDT for Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Jun 9, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2022, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 9, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2022, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 73 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
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 434 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 371 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
069 WHUS41 KBOX 082015 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 415 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-090915- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0001.220609T1200Z-220610T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 415 PM EDT Wed Jun 8 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI County. * WHEN...From Thursday morning through Thursday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
686 WHUS41 KBOX 090648 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 248 AM EDT Thu Jun 9 2022 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-092000- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0001.220609T1200Z-220610T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 248 AM EDT Thu Jun 9 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI County. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Frank
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 7:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 52 hr | |
| Jun 8, 5:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 6:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 57 min |
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.