Rip Current, Monmouth
- When
- June 20, 8:00 AM EST to June 21, 8:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monmouth County, Sea Girt
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.288, -74.158 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Rip Currents in New Jersey, June 20 to 21, 1998
Rip tides caused lifeguards to rescue people over the weekend in both Sea Girt and Ship Bottom. On Saturday the 20th, 20 swimmers were rescued in Sea Girt.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Rip tides caused lifeguards to rescue people over the weekend in both Sea Girt and Ship Bottom. On Saturday the 20th, 20 swimmers were rescued in Sea Girt. On Sunday the 21st, in Ship Bottom, 47 people had to be rescued from a sandbar at the 20th Street Beach. An eight foot gully was apparently created by the sandbar. The persons became stranded as the tide rolled in and rip tides prevented them from swimming to land. There were about a dozen additional rescues at Ship Bottom through the weekend. The numerous northeasters of the past winter and the ensuing erosion created a larger number of offshore sandbars. Breaks in the sandbars are believed to cause rip tides. Rip tides also occur near groins and jetties.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Rip Current, Ocean
- When
- June 20, 8:00 AM EST to June 21, 8:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ocean County, Ship Bottom
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.866, -74.250 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
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The same day elsewhere
- Heat in New Jersey, June 20, 1998
- Heat in Pennsylvania, June 20 to 21, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 20, 1998
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Iowa, June 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 20, 1998
- Flash Flood in Missouri, June 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 20, 1998
- Hail in Minnesota, June 20, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Massachusetts, June 20, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Minnesota, June 20, 1998
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5665625, 5665626.