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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

May 31, 20115 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 31, 2011, 5:32 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 31, 2011, 5:32 AM CDT (10:32 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Corpus Christi, TX

Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 23 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2011-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4249 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Corpus Christi, TX at 00:00Z on 2011-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
565 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.3
Supercell composite
-1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

497 
WHUS44 KCRP 311032
CFWCRP

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
532 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011

TXZ242>245-247-010100-
/O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0004.110531T1032Z-110601T0300Z/
KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN-
532 AM CDT TUE MAY 31 2011

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THROUGH THIS EVENING...

PERSISTENT SOUTHEAST WINDS AROUND 20 MPH AND 4 TO 6 FOOT INCOMING
WAVES WILL PRODUCE CONDITIONS FAVORABLE FOR RIP CURRENTS AT AREA
BEACHES TODAY. RIP CURRENTS WILL BE ESPECIALLY STRONG AND DANGEROUS
NEAR PIERS AND JETTIES. A RIP CURRENT RELATED FATALITY WAS
REPORTED ON SOUTH PADRE ISLAND ON MONDAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SWIMMING TODAY IS DISCOURAGED DUE TO THE HIGH RISK OF RIP
CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS POSE A DANGER TO ANYONE IN THE WATER. IF
YOU DECIDE TO ENTER THE WATER TODAY...DO NOT VENTURE BEYOND THE
FIRST SAND BAR AND STAY AWAY FROM PIERS AND JETTIES.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. SWIM PARALLEL
TO THE BEACH IN ORDER TO SWIM OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT WHICH IS
TYPICALLY A NARROW STREAM OF WATER. ONCE OUT OF THE CURRENT SWIM
BACK TO SHORE.

$$

HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/CORPUSCHRISTI

MJG

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.