Alert archive / Maine / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Sep 17, 2023, 3:06 AM EDT for 5 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2023, 3:06 AM EDT (07:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 17, 2023, 3:07 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 25 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
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 486 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
571 WHUS41 KGYX 170706 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 306 AM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-171515- /O.CAN.KGYX.SU.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-230917T1200Z/ /O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0003.230917T0706Z-230917T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 306 AM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...HIGH SURF ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln and Knox Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
805 WHUS41 KGYX 171507 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 1107 AM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-172300- /O.CON.KGYX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-230917T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 1107 AM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, Lincoln and Knox Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
075 WHUS41 KGYX 171907 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 307 PM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 MEZ023>027-NHZ014-172015- /O.CAN.KGYX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-230917T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox- Coastal Rockingham- 307 PM EDT Sun Sep 17 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Waves have subsided significantly today, and reduced the risk of rip tides, but swimmers should still alert for rip tides. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 8:03 PM EDT | Gale Warning | GYX | 3 hr | |
| Sep 16, 8:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GYX | 11 hr | |
| Sep 16, 8:17 PM EDT | High Surf Advisory | GYX | Cumberland, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, York | 7 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Maine, 2023Rip Current Statements in New Hampshire, 2023Every rip current statement in 2023
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.