Alert archive / New York / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 14, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Aug 7, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Aug 8, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2023, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 8, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY, Suffolk County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted.
848 WHUS41 KOKX 072045 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 445 PM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-080100- /O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0014.230808T1000Z-230809T0100Z/ /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-230808T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 445 PM EDT Mon Aug 7 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties. * WHEN...For the first High Rip Current Risk, until 9 PM EDT this evening. For the second High Rip Current Risk, from Tuesday morning through Tuesday evening. * IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
2 follow-up statements
553 WHUS41 KOKX 080836 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 436 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-090100- /O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0014.230808T1000Z-230809T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 436 AM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southwest Suffolk, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Queens and Southern Nassau Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and yell or wave for help. && $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
879 WHUS41 KOKX 090106 CFWOKX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service New York NY 906 PM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 NYZ075-080-081-178-179-090215- /O.EXP.KOKX.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-230809T0100Z/ Kings (Brooklyn)-Southwest Suffolk-Southeast Suffolk- Southern Queens-Southern Nassau- 906 PM EDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... The high rip current risk was allowed to expire. $$ For more information from the National Weather Service visit https://weather.gov/nyc
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:50 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | OKX | 57 hr | |
| Aug 7, 5:13 AM EDT | Rip Current Statement | OKX | Kings, Nassau, Queens, Suffolk | 16 hr |
| Aug 7, 11:58 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 92 min |
| Aug 7, 7:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 66 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.