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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Gray, ME
NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Sep 24, 2024, 3:00 AM EDT for Cumberland County, York County, Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Sep 24, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 24, 2024, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 24, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gray, ME
Counties Cumberland County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
108 WHUS41 KGYX 240700 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 300 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 MEZ023-024-NHZ014-241500- /O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0003.240924T1200Z-240925T0000Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Coastal Rockingham- 300 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York and Coastal Cumberland Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. * 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 possible. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
211 WHUS41 KGYX 241516 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 1116 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 MEZ023-024-NHZ014-250000- /O.CON.KGYX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Coastal Rockingham- 1116 AM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York and Coastal Cumberland Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal Rockingham County. * WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
158 WHUS41 KGYX 250006 CFWGYX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Gray ME 806 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 2024 MEZ023-024-NHZ014-250115- /O.EXP.KGYX.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-240925T0000Z/ Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Coastal Rockingham- 806 PM EDT Tue Sep 24 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.