Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Sep 24, 2024, 2:58 PM EDT for 5 counties in Massachusetts. It took effect at Sep 25, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2024, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 25, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Essex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
520 WHUS41 KBOX 241858 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 258 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 MAZ007-019-022-024-250800- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0011.240925T1200Z-240926T0000Z/ /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ Eastern Essex MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Nantucket MA- 258 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...For the first High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents. For the second High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Eastern Essex MA, Eastern Plymouth MA, Barnstable MA and Nantucket MA Counties. * WHEN...For the first High Rip Current Risk, until 8 PM EDT this evening. For the second High Rip Current Risk, from Wednesday morning through Wednesday 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. && $$ MAZ020-023-RIZ006>008-250000- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Dukes MA-Washington RI-Newport RI- Block Island RI- 258 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Dukes MA, and Newport RI Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
3 follow-up statements
069 WHUS41 KBOX 250007 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 807 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 MAZ007-019-022-024-251315- /O.EXP.KBOX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0011.240925T1200Z-240926T0000Z/ Eastern Essex MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Nantucket MA- 807 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Eastern Essex MA, Eastern Plymouth MA, Barnstable MA and Nantucket MA Counties. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT Wednesday through Wednesday 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. && $$ MAZ020-023-RIZ006>008-250115- /O.EXP.KBOX.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Dukes MA-Washington RI-Newport RI- Block Island RI- 807 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$ Frank
307 WHUS41 KBOX 250739 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 339 AM EDT Wed Sep 25 2024 MAZ007-019-022-024-252045- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0011.240925T1200Z-240926T0000Z/ Eastern Essex MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Nantucket MA- 339 AM EDT Wed Sep 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Eastern Essex MA, Eastern Plymouth MA, Barnstable MA and Nantucket MA Counties. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT this morning 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. && $$
704 WHUS41 KBOX 260025 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 825 PM EDT Wed Sep 25 2024 MAZ007-019-022-024-260130- /O.EXP.KBOX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240926T0000Z/ Eastern Essex MA-Eastern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Nantucket MA- 825 PM EDT Wed Sep 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... $$
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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.