Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jul 30, 2023, 8:44 AM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2023, 8:44 AM EDT (12:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2023, 7:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:48 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 1164 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
577 WHUS41 KBOX 301244 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 844 AM EDT Sun Jul 30 2023 MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-310000- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0002.230730T1244Z-230731T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 844 AM EDT Sun Jul 30 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Rough surf and dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Barnstable MA, Dukes MA, Nantucket MA, and Newport RI Counties. * 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. && $$ Nocera
1 follow-up statement
591 WHUS41 KBOX 302331 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 731 PM EDT Sun Jul 30 2023 MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-310045- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-230731T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 731 PM EDT Sun Jul 30 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 29, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth | 42 min |
| Jul 29, 8:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOX | Essex, Middlesex | 53 min |
| Jul 29, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 39 min |
| Jul 29, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 52 min | |
| Jul 29, 8:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 33 min | |
| Jul 29, 8:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BOX | Bristol, Plymouth | 28 min |
| Jul 29, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Plymouth | 66 min |
| Jul 29, 8:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 38 min | |
| Jul 29, 8:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 66 min | |
| Jul 29, 9:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 54 min | |
| Jul 29, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Barnstable | 29 min |
| Jul 29, 9:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 56 min | |
| Jul 29, 9:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Dukes | 46 min |
| Jul 29, 9:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 58 min | |
| Jul 29, 10:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Nantucket | 66 min |
| Jul 29, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BOX | 22 min | |
| Jul 29, 8:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Bristol, Kent, Newport, Washington | 66 min |
| Jul 29, 9:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOX | Washington | 26 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.