Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2025
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at May 31, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT for Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2025, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2025, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Dukes County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:37 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
857 WHUS41 KBOX 311834 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 234 PM EDT Sat May 31 2025 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-011000- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0001.250531T1834Z-250601T2300Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 234 PM EDT Sat May 31 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
862 WHUS41 KBOX 010544 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 144 AM EDT Sun Jun 1 2025 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-011845- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-250601T2300Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 144 AM EDT Sun Jun 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
704 WHUS41 KBOX 011748 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 148 PM EDT Sun Jun 1 2025 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-012300- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-250601T2300Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 148 PM EDT Sun Jun 1 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI. * WHEN...Until 7 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:37 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BOX | 19 hr | |
| May 31, 11:18 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, Plymouth | 10 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.