Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jul 6, 2024, 3:44 AM EDT for 5 counties in Massachusetts; Newport County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Jul 6, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2024, 3:44 AM EDT (07:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 6, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
713 WHUS41 KBOX 060744 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 344 AM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 MAZ020>024-RIZ006>008-062045- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0002.240706T1200Z-240707T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA- Nantucket MA-Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 344 AM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Southern Plymouth MA, Barnstable MA, Dukes MA, Nantucket MA, and Newport RI 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. && $$ Dooley
2 follow-up statements
895 WHUS41 KBOX 061958 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 358 PM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 MAZ020>024-RIZ006>008-070000- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-240707T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA- Nantucket MA-Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 358 PM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Washington, Southern Bristol MA, Southern Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, and Newport Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
203 WHUS41 KBOX 062359 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 759 PM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 MAZ020>024-RIZ006>008-070100- /O.EXP.KBOX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-240707T0000Z/ Southern Bristol MA-Southern Plymouth MA-Barnstable MA-Dukes MA- Nantucket MA-Washington RI-Newport RI-Block Island RI- 759 PM EDT Sat Jul 6 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... $$
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.