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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Brownsville, TX

April 29, 2012Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 29, 2012, 7:01 AM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 2012, 7:01 AM CDT (12:01 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Brownsville, TX

County Kenedy County, TX

The radar

The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 883 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 675 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 138 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.

255 
WHUS44 KBRO 291201
CFWBRO

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
701 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK AT AREA BEACHES TODAY...

.STRONG SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS WILL SHIFT
SLIGHTLY MORE EASTERLY TODAY AND PUSH A SWELL OF LARGER WAVES
ONSHORE THROUGHOUT THE DAY TODAY. THIS WILL LEAD TO DANGEROUS RIP
CURRENTS AT THE BEACHES OF SOUTH PADRE ISLAND AND BOCA CHICA BEACH
AND THE LOWER TEXAS COAST.

TXZ251-256-257-300000-
/O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0003.120429T1201Z-120430T0000Z/
KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON-
701 AM CDT SUN APR 29 2012

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...WAVE HEIGHTS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE LATE MORNING AND
  AFTERNOON WITH A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THROUGH THE DAY.

* IMPACTS...MARINE CONDITIONS SUPPORT STRONGER OR MORE FREQUENT
  LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS...WHICH WILL CREATE DANGEROUS
  SWIMMING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY NEAR JETTIES. SWIMMING IS
  HIGHLY DISCOURAGED.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS.

RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY
FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE
SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS
GROINS...JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE
BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS.

IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM
AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE
FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT.
..BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM
DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME
EXHAUSTED QUICKLY.

&&

$$

JGG

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 4:13 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory for Winds	BRO		16 hr

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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.