Rip Current — Southern Queens, New York
May 22, 2021 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Recovery teams found the body of a woman in her sixties who went missing in the waters off Far Rockaway on May 22nd Saturday night. Police said a body was recovered May 23rd Sunday morning near the search site of a missing swimmer last seen the night before.||NYPD and FDNY search teams were dispatched Saturday evening to Far Rockaway after reports of a missing swimmer were made around 9:30 p.m. The woman allegedly stripped off her clothes and ran into the Rockaway Inlet off Beach 17th St. and Seagirt Blvd. at about 9:00 p.m. According to some witnesses, they saw the woman struggling in the water 30 feet away from shore and screaming for help. Once first responders arrived to the incident the woman had already been pulled down and disappeared.||This was likely a rip current fatality due to
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.