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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Gray, ME

October 2, 20255 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire

NWS Gray, ME issued this rip current statement at Oct 2, 2025, 1:14 AM EDT for 5 counties in Maine; Rockingham County, New Hampshire. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 2, 2025, 1:14 AM EDT (05:14 UTC)
Expired
Oct 2, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Gray, ME

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

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 25 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 2025-10-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2025-10-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

597 
WHUS41 KGYX 020514
CFWGYX

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Gray ME
114 AM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025

MEZ023>027-NHZ014-022100-
/O.NEW.KGYX.RP.S.0004.251002T0514Z-251002T2100Z/
Coastal York-Coastal Cumberland-Sagadahoc-Lincoln-Knox-
Coastal Rockingham-
114 AM EDT Thu Oct 2 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. Large breaking waves will pose a
  high risk for rip currents today. The wave heights will tend to
  diminish this afternoon.

* WHERE...In Maine, Coastal York, Coastal Cumberland, Sagadahoc, 
  Lincoln and Knox Counties. In New Hampshire, Coastal 
  Rockingham County.

* WHEN...Through 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.

&&

$$

MLE

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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.