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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS New York, NY
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.
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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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 9:22 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | OKX | Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester | 12 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:30 PM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | OKX | 19 hr | |
| Jun 18, 3:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange | 58 min |
| Jun 18, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | OKX | Orange | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 6:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 113 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.