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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS New York, NY

June 18, 2025Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this rip current statement at Jun 18, 2025, 3:39 PM EDT for Kings County, Nassau County, Queens County, New York. It took effect at Jun 19, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 2025, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 19, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired
Jun 19, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS New York, NY

Counties Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Queens County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-06-18Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 142 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

894 
WHUS41 KOKX 181939
CFWOKX

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service New York NY
339 PM EDT Wed Jun 18 2025

NYZ075-178-179-191000-
/O.NEW.KOKX.RP.S.0005.250619T1600Z-250620T0100Z/
Kings (Brooklyn)-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau-
339 PM EDT Wed Jun 18 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected.

* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southern Queens and Southern Nassau 
  Counties.

* WHEN...From Thursday afternoon through Thursday evening.

* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all 
  people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches 
  should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the 
  best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The rip current risk will increase 
  through the afternoon, especially for the western ocean 
  beaches. The higher risk may carry into a portion of Friday
  as well.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with
you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax
and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in
a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face
the shore and yell or wave for help.

&&

$$

Be sure to use the MyCoast app to relay photos and reports of
coastal flooding and beach erosion.

For more information from the National Weather Service visit
https://weather.gov/nyc
1 follow-up statement
328 
WHUS41 KOKX 191932
CFWOKX

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service New York NY
332 PM EDT Thu Jun 19 2025

NYZ075-178-179-200100-
/O.CON.KOKX.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250620T0100Z/
Kings (Brooklyn)-Southern Queens-Southern Nassau-
332 PM EDT Thu Jun 19 2025

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Kings (Brooklyn), Southern Queens and Southern Nassau 
  Counties.

* WHEN...Until 9 PM EDT this evening.

* IMPACTS...Life-threatening rip currents are likely for all 
  people entering the surf zone. Anyone visiting the beaches 
  should stay out of the surf. Rip currents can sweep even the 
  best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you enter the surf zone, always have a flotation device with
you and swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax
and float, and do not swim against the current. If able, swim in
a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face
the shore and yell or wave for help.

&&

$$

Be sure to use the MyCoast app to relay photos and reports of
coastal flooding and beach erosion.

For more information from the National Weather Service visit
https://weather.gov/nyc

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 9:22 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryOKXNassau, Suffolk, Westchester12 hr
Jun 18, 1:30 PM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryOKX19 hr
Jun 18, 3:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXOrange58 min
Jun 18, 5:43 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementOKXOrange47 min
Jun 18, 6:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryOKXOrange, Rockland113 min

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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.