A 35 year old man died 300 yards offshore in Far Rockway in East Rockaway Inlet.
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.
The episode as NWS OKX wrote it up.
A 35 year old man died 300 yards offshore in Far Rockway in East Rockaway Inlet.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 13, 6:42 AM EST, 33 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 742 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 2009 .SYNOPSIS... ALTERNATING WEAK HIGH PRESSURE AND WEAK TROUGHS THIS WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ANOTHER FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL AFFECT THE AREA DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE WEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... MEAN TROUGHING CONTINUES OVER THE NE TODAY...WITH WEAK VORTS MOVING IN FLOW AND WEAK SHORTWAVE APPROACHING LATE IN THE DAY. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES OFFSHORE THIS MORNING WITH NE FLOW VEERING TO E. ONSHORE FLOW WILL KEEP MOIST LOW-LEVEL MARITIME AIRMASS ACROSS THE REGION...DEWPOINTS REMAINING AROUND 60 DEGREES. HIGH BASED STRATO- CU DECK HAS INHIBITED WIDESPREAD LOW STRATUS/FOG DEVELOPMENT EARLY THIS MORNING. JUST SOME PATCHY MORNING FOG...LOCALLY DENSE. MODEL RH FIELDS INDICATING THAT THE STRATO-CU DECK MAY HANG UNDER A WEAK SUBSIDENCE INVERSION TODAY...WITH QUITE A BIT OF CLOUD COVER TODAY. DESPITE MILD START...HAVE GONE A DEGREE OR SO BELOW MAV GUIDANCE THEREFORE...GENERALLY HIGHS IN THE MID TO SOME UPPER 70S ACROSS CITY/INTERIOR...LOWER 70S COAST WITH ONSHORE FLOW. DEEPER MIXING WORKING FARTHER INTO THE INTERIOR SHOULD ALLOW FOR BETTER HEATING AND MARGINAL INSTABILITY DEVELOPMENT BY AFTERNOON. THIS INSTABILITY...UPSLOPE FLOW/WEAK MOISTURE CONVERGENCE...AND APPROACHING SHORTWAVE ENERGY SHOULD ALLOW FOR SCATTERED SHRA/TSRA DEVELOPMENT ACROSS INTERIOR ZONES. ANY ACTIVITY THAT DEVELOPS WILL ONLY SLOWLY DRIFT EAST...WITH LOCALIZED MINOR URBAN FLOODING POSSIBLE. FARTHER EAST...LIMITED INSTABILITY AND LOW-LEVEL FORCING SHOULD KEEP ANY ACTIVITY ISOLATED TODAY. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY/... LONG WAVE UPPER TROUGHING WITH EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES MOVING THROUGH WILL PRODUCE PERIODS OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS THROUGH MON...MORE SO DIURNALLY DRIVEN. MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT WITH GREAT LAKES SHORTWAVE DIGGING A BIT INTO NEW YORK STATE TONIGHT...WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT DROPPING TOWARDS THE REGION. SHRA ACTIVITY WILL LIKELY CONTINUE AND TRANSLATE EAST WITH AMPLE MOISTURE AND INCREASED FORCING...HIGHEST POPS ACROSS NORTHERN 1/2 OF CWA. SOUNDINGS ALSO INDICATING MARGINAL ELEVATED INSTABILITY AHEAD OF THIS FEATURE...SUPPORTING A CONTINUATION/TRANSITION TO ISOLATED ELEVATED CONVECTION OVERNIGHT. ONSHORE FLOW AND NOCTURNAL INVERSION MAY HAVE STRATUS/FOG DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE COAST...IF NOT MIXED OUT BY SHOWERS. SHORTWAVE ENERGY SLIDES EAST THRU NEW ENGLAND ON SUNDAY...WITH WEAK SURFACE COLD FRONT PUSHING SOUTH THROUGH THE REGION. DIURNAL SHOWER ACTIVITY ONCE AGAIN ON SUNDAY WITH THIS FORCING AND DAYTIME HEATING...WITH MAIN AXIS ACROSS EASTERN CONN WITH BEST SHORTWAVE FORCING AND MOISTURE POOLING. SURFACE INSTABILITY APPEARS MORE LIMITED THAN TODAY...LIMITING CONVECTION TO ISOLD. MAY BE ABLE TO GET SOME PARTIAL CLEARING IN WAKE OF COLD FRONT FROM W TO E IN THE AFTERNOON...PARTICULARLY WESTERN 1/2 OF CWA. TEMPS MAY NEAR SEASONABLE LEVELS ACROSS WESTERN 1/2 OF CWA WITH SUNSHINE...BELOW SEASONABLE EASTERN HALF WITH MORE CLOUDS COVER/SHRA. SHORTWAVE SLIDES OFFSHORE SUN NIGHT...WITH WEAK RIDGING AND CAA PERHAPS FINALLY ALLOWING FOR A DRY AND STRATUS/FOG FREE NIGHT. LONGWAVE TROUGH AXIS SLIDES TOWARDS THE REGION MONDAY WITH YET ANOTHER ROUND OF AFTERNOON/EVENING SHOWERS/TSTMS. BETTER CHANCE OF OF TSTMS ACROSS INTERIOR WITH MARGINAL INSTABILITY. TEMPS SLIGHTLY BELOW SEASONABLE. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... COLD FRONT SLOWLY WORKS ITS WAY THROUGH THE REGION MON NIGHT... FOLLOWED BY AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH/SHORTWAVE ON TUE. THIS WILL KEEP AT LEAST CHANCE POPS IN THE FCST INTO TUE MORNING. HIGH PRES THEN BUILDS INTO THE REGION...TO BRING FAIR SKIES AND MODERATING TEMPS FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. UNSETTLED WEATHER RETURNS TO CLOSE OUT THE WEEK AS THE NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM APPROACHES. && .AVIATION /12Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... MODERATE TO HIGH CONFIDENCE IN VFR PREVAILING THROUGH THE DAYTIME. SCATTERED SHOWERS WITH POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS FOR MAINLY NORTH AND WEST OF THE CITY THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING. THIS MAY BRING RELATIVELY BRIEF PERIODS OF SUB VFR CONDITIONS. FOR NOW...HAVE GONE WITH CB ATTACHMENT IN TAFS FOR NJ AND HUDSON VALLEY TERMINALS WHERE PROBABILITY IS HIGHEST. BEST CHANCES OF T-STORM WOULD BE MID-AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. WINDS GENERALLY VRB TO NE EARLY ON...BECOMING SE FOR THE AFTERNOON AT 10KT OR LESS. MOS GUIDANCE INDICATING LOW-END MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS DEVELOPING TONIGHT...WHICH MAY BE TOO AGGRESSIVE...BUT WILL STILL GO WITH MVFR CONDITIONS DEVELOPING 03-06Z SUN. OUTLOOK FOR 12Z SUN THROUGH WED... VFR PREVAILING THROUGH THE PERIOD...ALTHOUGH A BRIEF PERIOD OF SUB-VFR POSSIBLE SUN MORNING. ISOLD AFTN TSTM PSBL ACROSS THE INTERIOR SUN AND MON AFTERNOONS MAY BRING SUB-IFR CONDITIONS. && .MARINE... WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD OFF ON ISSUING ANY DENSE FOG ADVISORIES AS FOG APPEARS NOT TO BE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH IN ANY ZONE TO WARRANT AN ISSUANCE...BUT WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS THROUGH AT LEAST MID-MORNING. OTHERWISE...TRANQUIL CONDITIONS WITH WINDS VARYING MOSTLY NE TO SE AT AROUND 10 KT OR LESS THROUGH MONDAY. PRESSURE GRADIENT TIGHTENS A BIT ON TUESDAY WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING IN. SEAS BUILDING UP TO 4 FT BY LATE IN THE DAY/EVENING WITH A SLIGHTLY STRONGER SE TO E FLOW. SUB-SCA CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO PREVAIL THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .HYDROLOGY... NO WIDESPREAD RAINFALL EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. AFTN/EVE CONVECTION IS EXPECTED TO BE SLOW MOVING...AND WITH PWATS STILL AROUND 1.5 INCHES...COULD PRODUCE AN INCH OR 2 OF LOCALIZED QPF. URBAN FLOODING COULD BE AN ISSUE IF THIS OCCURS...BUT DUE TO LOCALIZED NATURE WILL NOT BE HIGHLIGHTING IN HWO. ISOL/SCT CONVECTION SUN/MON AS WELL...BUT APPEARS THERE WILL BE A BIT MORE MOVEMENT TO CONVECTION WITH SOMEWHAT LOWER QPF POTENTIAL. BUT CANT RULE OUT LOCALIZED URBAN FLOODING WITH ANY CONVECTION. && .EQUIPMENT... THE DECOMMISSIONING OF THE MICROART UPPER AIR SYSTEM HAS BEGUN. THERE WILL NOT BE ANY SOUNDINGS TAKEN UNTIL RRS IS INSTALLED AND OPERATING. ANOTHER MESSAGE WILL BE ISSUED INDICATING THE FIRST OFFICIAL SOUNDING WITH THE RRS...WHICH SHOULD BE BY THE WEEK OF JUNE 22 2009. && .OKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... CT...NONE. NY...NONE. NJ...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...NV NEAR TERM...NV SHORT TERM...NV LONG TERM... AVIATION...JC MARINE...JC HYDROLOGY...NV EQUIPMENT...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 412 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 2009 CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-140815- NORTHERN FAIRFIELD-NORTHERN NEW HAVEN-NORTHERN MIDDLESEX- NORTHERN NEW LONDON-SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD-SOUTHERN NEW HAVEN- SOUTHERN MIDDLESEX-SOUTHERN NEW LONDON-WESTERN PASSAIC-BERGEN- EASTERN PASSAIC-ESSEX-HUDSON-UNION-ORANGE-PUTNAM-ROCKLAND- NORTHERN WESTCHESTER-SOUTHERN WESTCHESTER-NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)-BRONX- RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)-KINGS (BROOKLYN)-QUEENS-NASSAU- NORTHWESTERN SUFFOLK-NORTHEASTERN SUFFOLK-SOUTHWESTERN SUFFOLK- SOUTHEASTERN SUFFOLK- 412 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT...NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA. ANZ330-335-338-340-345-350-353-355-140815- LONG ISLAND SOUND EAST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- LONG ISLAND SOUND WEST OF NEW HAVEN CT/PORT JEFFERSON NY- NEW YORK HARBOR-PECONIC AND GARDINERS BAYS- SOUTH SHORE BAYS FROM JONES INLET THROUGH SHINNECOCK BAY- MORICHES INLET NY TO MONTAUK POINT NY OUT 20 NM- FIRE ISLAND INLET NY TO MORICHES INLET NY OUT 20 NM- SANDY HOOK NJ TO FIRE ISLAND INLET NY OUT 20 NM- 412 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME THAT WOULD MEET NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WARNING CRITERIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. && THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK PROVIDES A SUMMARY OF POTENTIAL WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER EVENTS THAT MAY REACH NWS WARNING CRITERIA. MOST LONG FUSED NWS WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES IN EFFECT ARE HIGHLIGHTED. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST NWS FORECASTS FOR WEATHER NOT MEETING NWS WARNING CRITERIA.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 35-year old man drowned in East Rockaway Inlet, about 300 yards offshore from Far Rockway beaches, after being impacted by a rip-current.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Queens | 2009-06-13 | 35 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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