Rip Current in San Francisco, California

Rip Current April 12, 2009 · San Francisco, California

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

Two men were in the surf about waist deep near stairway 24, just south of the Cliff House on Ocean Beach, San Francisco when a large wave knocked then off their feet and swept them away. The two men were caught in a rip current and only one of them survived.

The wider storm

A rip current at Ocean Beach caught two men off guard resulting in one man's death.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 167427. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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