Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2022
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jun 17, 2022, 3:41 AM EDT for Washington County, Rhode Island; Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jun 17, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 2022, 3:41 AM EDT (07:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 17, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 17, 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 07:44 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 00:00Z, 7.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1028 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 283 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
724 WHUS41 KBOX 170741 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 341 AM EDT Fri Jun 17 2022 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-180000- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0002.220617T1200Z-220618T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 341 AM EDT Fri Jun 17 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Providence | 41 min |
| Jun 17, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Kent, Newport | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, Washington | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Newport | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 45 min |
| Jun 17, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 44 min |
| Jun 17, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Norfolk | 42 min |
| Jun 17, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Worcester | 50 min |
| Jun 17, 1:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Norfolk | 38 min |
| Jun 17, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 50 min | |
| Jun 17, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Plymouth | 47 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.