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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 8, 2012, 5:33 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2012, 5:33 AM CST (11:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2012, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 755 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
700 WHUS44 KCRP 081133 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 533 AM CST THU MAR 8 2012 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND THIS EVENING... .STRONG ONSHORE WINDS COMBINED WITH AN INCREASE IN SWELL AND SURF WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND INTO THIS EVENING AT GULF FACING BEACHES. TXZ242-243-245-247-082215- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0001.120308T1133Z-120309T0600Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 533 AM CST THU MAR 8 2012 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ONGOING AND WILL NOT SUBSIDE UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE MOST DANGEROUS NEAR THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE- THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF 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. && $$ HART/METZ
1 follow-up statement
180 WHUS44 KCRP 082145 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 345 PM CST THU MAR 8 2012 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY AND THIS EVENING... .STRONG ONSHORE WINDS COMBINED WITH AN INCREASE IN SWELL AND SURF WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING ALONG GULF FACING BEACHES. TXZ242-243-245-247-090600- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-120309T0600Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 345 PM CST THU MAR 8 2012 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * TIMING...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ONGOING AND WILL NOT SUBSIDE UNTIL LATE THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE. THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE MOST DANGEROUS NEAR THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. RIP CURRENTS ARE LIFE- THREATENING TO ANYONE ENTERING THE SURF PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 3:47 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 17 hr | |
| Mar 8, 4:10 AM CST | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 5 more | 14 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.