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Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX

July 1, 20116 counties in Texas

NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Jul 1, 2011, 4:36 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 1, 2011, 4:36 AM CDT (09:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2011, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Corpus Christi, TX

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

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:35 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 30 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

509 
WHUS44 KCRP 010936
CFWCRP

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX
436 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES ALONG THE SOUTH TEXAS
COAST TODAY...

.HIGH SWELLS AND PROLONGED WAVE PERIODS FROM TROPICAL STORM
ARLENE WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY.
HOWEVER...MINOR FLOODING ALONG SOUTH TEXAS BEACHES IS EXPECTED
TO BE LESS TODAY...ALTHOUGH SOME ISOLATED LOCATIONS SOUTH OF PORT
ARANSAS MAY EXPERIENCE SOME MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW THROUGH FRIDAY
MORNING.


TXZ242>247-011830-
/O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0007.110701T0936Z-110702T0500Z/
KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN-
436 AM CDT FRI JUL 1 2011

...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING...

LARGE SWELLS AND PROLONGED WAVE PERIODS DUE TO TROPICAL STORM
ARLENE WILL COMBINE WITH WEAK TO MODERATE ONSHORE WINDS
TODAY...AND RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND THIS
EVENING. THE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS WILL ONLY DIMINISH SLIGHTLY
THIS WEEKEND AS PERIODS ONLY GRADUALLY DIMINISH AND ONSHORE FLOW
CONTINUES. 

AT THIS TIME...WATER LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 1/2 FOOT
BELOW THE LEVELS SEEN YESTERDAY. SOME MINOR BEACH FLOODING IS
STILL POSSIBLE SOUTH OF PORT ARANSAS...AS SOME AREAS MAY HAVE
STANDING WATER OR WATER SLOWER TO RECEDE. HIGH TIDE AT PORT
ARANSAS OCCURS AT 610 AM FRIDAY MORNING...WITH ANOTHER HIGH TIDE
AT 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON.

.PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MARINE-RELATED ACTIVITIES...INCLUDING SWIMMING...ARE HIGHLY
DISCOURAGED DUE TO THE RIP CURRENT THREAT. A HIGH RIP CURRENT
RISK MEANS THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. RIP
CURRENTS ARE LIFE-THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF.

&&

$$


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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.