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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 26, 2012, 3:22 AM CDT for 6 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 26, 2012, 6:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2012, 3:22 AM CDT (08:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 26, 2012, 6:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 18 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 08:25 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, 8.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -237 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 1 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
421 WHUS44 KCRP 260822 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 322 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...HIGH RISK OF DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG BARRIER ISLAND BEACHES... .PERSISTENT MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTHEAST FLOW ALONG WITH LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE BARRIER ISLANDS THROUGH THIS EVENING. TXZ242>247-262200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0004.120526T1100Z-120527T0500Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-REFUGIO-CALHOUN- 322 AM CDT SAT MAY 26 2012 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL BE POSSIBLE ALONG BARRIER ISLAND BEACHES OF THE MID TEXAS COAST. THE RIP CURRENTS WILL BE MOST FREQUENT AND STRONGER 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. && $$ GW
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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.