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Rip Current in Southern Queens, New York
Rip Current May 22, 2020 · Southern Queens, New York
What the National Weather Service wrote
A 24 year old Brooklyn man drowned at Rockaway Beach around 3pm May 22nd 2020.
First responders received a call just before 3 p.m. Friday about three men in distress in the water. The NYPD said the three men, all in their 20s, got caught in a rip current.
Two of them were able to make it out OK, but a third man, a 24-year-old Fidel Ramirez of Brooklyn, was swept under the water. Eventually, first responders did reach him. He was rushed to the hospital, but he did not survive.
The victim went into the water along Beach 84th Street, but he was pulled out along Beach 91st Street.
No life guards were on duty. A high rip current risk was in effect.
The wider storm
A high rip current risk was expected on Friday May 22nd as long period east to southeast swells continued the day after a high surf event, along with onshore flow of around 10 kt.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 899873. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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