Alert archive / Massachusetts / Rip Current Statements in 2025
Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this rip current statement at Jun 10, 2025, 3:36 AM EDT for Dukes County, Nantucket County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island. It took effect at Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2025, 3:36 AM EDT (07:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 11, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2025, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 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 07:35 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, 7.6 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 477 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
015 WHUS41 KBOX 100736 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 336 AM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-102045- /O.NEW.KBOX.RP.S.0002.250611T1000Z-250612T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 336 AM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI. * WHEN...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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
965 WHUS41 KBOX 101806 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 206 PM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 MAZ023-024-RIZ008-110715- /O.CON.KBOX.RP.S.0002.250611T1000Z-250612T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Nantucket MA-Block Island RI- 206 PM EDT Tue Jun 10 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...In Massachusetts, Dukes MA and Nantucket MA Counties. In Rhode Island, Block Island RI. * WHEN...From Wednesday morning through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
425 WHUS41 KBOX 110710 CFWBOX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 310 AM EDT Wed Jun 11 2025 MAZ023-RIZ008-110815- /O.CAN.KBOX.RP.S.0002.250611T1000Z-250612T0000Z/ Dukes MA-Block Island RI- 310 AM EDT Wed Jun 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... $$ MAZ024-111800- /O.EXT.KBOX.RP.S.0002.250611T1000Z-250611T1800Z/ Nantucket MA- 310 AM EDT Wed Jun 11 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Nantucket MA County. * WHEN...Until 2 PM EDT this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:27 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 35 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.