Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Sep 19, 2023, 5:16 AM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 2023, 5:16 AM EDT (09:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 09:17 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 00:00Z, 9.3 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 656 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
397 WHUS41 KBOX 190916 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 516 AM EDT Tue Sep 19 2023 MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-192230- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0008.230919T0916Z-230919T2300Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 516 AM EDT Tue Sep 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Barnstable MA, Dukes MA, Nantucket MA, and Newport RI Counties. * WHEN...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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
242 WHUS41 KBOX 192000 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 400 PM EDT Tue Sep 19 2023 MAZ020-022>024-RIZ006>008-192300- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-230919T2300Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA-Nantucket MA- Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 400 PM EDT Tue Sep 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, and Newport Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 8:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Essex, Suffolk | 66 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.