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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Brownsville, TX

July 16, 2013Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Jul 16, 2013, 1:32 PM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 2013, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2013, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 8 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 18:34 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 12:00Z, 6.5 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: 1401 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 809 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -59 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.

365 
WHUS44 KBRO 161832
CFWBRO

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
132 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON...

.STRONG SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW PRESSURE OVER THE
THE GULF OF MEXICO HAS INCREASED SEAS AND SWELL HEIGHTS ACROSS THE
LOWER TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. AS A RESULT RIP CURRENT HAS BECOME
HIGH. RIP CURRENT RISK WILL REMAIN HIGH THROUGH AT LEAST THIS
EVENING.

TXZ251-256-257-170215-
/O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0003.130716T1832Z-130717T0300Z/
KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON-
132 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP
CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

* TIMING...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. 

* IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED.

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 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.

&&

$$

1 follow-up statement

470 
WHUS44 KBRO 170319
CFWBRO

COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX
1019 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2013

...SWELL DECREASING ACROSS LOWER TEXAS COASTAL AREAS...

WINDS AND WAVE HEIGHTS HAVE DECREASED THIS EVENING...REDUCING THE
RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES.

TXZ251-256-257-170430-
/O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-130717T0300Z/
KENEDY-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON-
1019 PM CDT TUE JUL 16 2013

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED...

WINDS AND WAVE HEIGHTS HAVE DECREASED THIS EVENING...REDUCING THE
RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS CONTINUES.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 9:28 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	BRO		47 min
Jul 16, 10:34 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	BRO		11 hr
Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Cameron	15 min

Nearby

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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.