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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Gray, ME

October 8, 20246 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Oct 8, 2024, 3:12 AM EDT for 6 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It took effect at Oct 8, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 8, 2024, 3:12 AM EDT (07:12 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 8, 2024, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 8, 2024, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

Counties Cumberland County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Rockingham County, NH

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 26 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2024-10-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 27 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 00:00Z on 2024-10-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
509 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

335 
WHUS41 KGYX 080712
CFWGYX

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Gray ME
312 AM EDT Tue Oct 8 2024

MEZ023>028-NHZ014-081515-
/O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0004.241008T1200Z-241009T0000Z/
Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox-
Coastal Waldo-Coastal Rockingham-
312 AM EDT Tue Oct 8 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, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, 
  Lincoln, Knox and Coastal Waldo 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 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.

&&

$$

Tubbs

The office that day

Everything else NWS Gray, ME issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 8, 3:10 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryGYXCumberland, Oxford, York28 hr

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.