Alert archive / Maine / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Sep 21, 2023, 7:13 AM EDT for 4 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 21, 2023, 7:13 AM EDT (11:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2023, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 29 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
- 1291 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
361 WHUS41 KGYX 211113 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 713 AM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 MEZ023>026-NHZ014-212300- /O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0004.230921T1113Z-230921T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln- Coastal Rockingham- 713 AM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc and Lincoln 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. && $$ GC
2 follow-up statements
298 WHUS41 KGYX 211954 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 354 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 MEZ023>026-NHZ014-212300- /O.CON.KGYX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-230921T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln- Coastal Rockingham- 354 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc and Lincoln Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. * WHEN...Until 7 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ ARNOTT
339 WHUS41 KGYX 212235 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 635 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 MEZ023>026-NHZ014-212345- /O.EXP.KGYX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-230921T2300Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln- Coastal Rockingham- 635 PM EDT Thu Sep 21 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... $$ ARNOTT
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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.