Rip Current in Southeast Suffolk, New York

Rip Current August 18, 2020 · Southeast Suffolk, New York

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

Per East Hampton PD, The body of Byron Dong Ha Kim was found Thursday in the Atlantic Ocean off Amagansett, about a half-mile east of where he was last seen swimming with friends near a Napeague resort at midday Tuesday. He was 23 and lived in Brooklyn.

The wider storm

South to southwest winds ahead of a slowly crossing cold front, had built surf to around 3 ft and a moderate risk for rip current development on Tuesday August 18th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 917898. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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