Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2022
Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jul 18, 2022, 2:30 PM EDT for Washington County, Rhode Island; Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Jul 19, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2022, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 19, 2022, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2022, 6:48 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 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 18:32 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, 6.5 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
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
214 WHUS41 KBOX 181830 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 230 PM EDT Mon Jul 18 2022 MAZ024-191000- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0004.220719T1200Z-220720T0000Z/ Nantucket MA- 230 PM EDT Mon Jul 18 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Nantucket MA County. * WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Tuesday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
966 WHUS41 KBOX 190727 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 327 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 MAZ023-RIZ008-192030- /O.EXA.KBOX.RP.S.0004.220719T1200Z-220720T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Block Island RI- 327 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA County. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI County. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ MAZ024-192030- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0004.220719T1200Z-220720T0000Z/ Nantucket MA- 327 AM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Nantucket MA 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. && $$
246 WHUS41 KBOX 191910 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 310 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-200000- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-220720T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 310 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI County. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
892 WHUS41 KBOX 192248 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 648 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 MAZ023-024-201200- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-220720T0000Z/ /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0005.220720T1200Z-220721T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- 648 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Wednesday 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. && $$ RIZ008-200000- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-220720T0000Z/ Block Island RI- 648 PM EDT Tue Jul 19 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The High Rip Current Risk has ended for today. A new high rip risk has been issued from 8 AM to 8 PM Wednesday for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent | 46 min |
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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.