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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Oct 4, 2013, 1:54 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2013, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2013, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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 18:54 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, 6.9 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
- 1130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
489 WHUS44 KCRP 041854 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 154 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM TROPICAL STORM KAREN COMBINED WITH AN ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING. THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL DECREASE DURING THE AFTERNOON AS KAREN MOVES FARTHER EAST. TXZ242-243-245-247-050400- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0005.131004T1854Z-131005T1800Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 154 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. * TIMING...FRIDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH 1 PM SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR ALONG THE GULF FACING BEACHES OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. 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. && $$ GW
3 follow-up statements
182 WHUS44 KCRP 050257 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 957 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM TROPICAL STORM KAREN COMBINED WITH AN ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL DECREASE BY SATURDAY EVENING AS KAREN MOVES FARTHER EAST. TXZ242-243-245-247-051200- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-131006T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 957 PM CDT FRI OCT 4 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * TIMING...THIS EVENING THROUGH 7 PM SATURDAY. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR ALONG THE GULF FACING BEACHES OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. DUE TO THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS...WATER MAY REACH THE DUNES AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ TMT
011 WHUS44 KCRP 051142 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 642 AM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM TROPICAL STORM KAREN COMBINED WITH AN ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL DECREASE THIS EVENING AS KAREN MOVES FARTHER EAST. TXZ242-243-245-247-052100- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-131006T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 642 AM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...THIS EVENING THROUGH 7 PM THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR ALONG THE GULF FACING BEACHES OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. DUE TO THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS...WATER MAY REACH THE DUNES AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE. 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. && $$
111 WHUS44 KCRP 051925 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 225 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS FROM TROPICAL STORM KAREN COMBINED WITH AN ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WILL CONTINUE TO DECREASE THIS EVENING AS KAREN MOVES FARTHER EAST...AND A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE WATERS LATE THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. ALSO...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW WILL OCCUR IN SOME ISOLATED LOCATIONS OVER SOME BEACHES...WITH WATER BRIEFLY REACHING THE DUNES ESPECIALLY AROUND HIGH TIDE THIS AFTERNOON. TXZ242-243-245-247-060400- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-131006T0400Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 225 PM CDT SAT OCT 5 2013 ...RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT THIS EVENING... ...ISOLATED MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW OVER A FEW LOCATIONS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * TIMING...THIS EVENING THROUGH 11 PM FOR RIP CURRENTS...AND THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING FOR MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW...WITH WATER POSSIBLY REACHING THE DUNES IN A FEW LOCATIONS. * IMPACTS...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS ARE ANTICIPATED TO OCCUR ALONG THE GULF FACING BEACHES OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST. BOTH THE STRENGTH AND FREQUENCY OF THESE RIP CURRENTS WILL RESULT IN SURF THAT IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. DUE TO THE LONG PERIOD SWELLS...WATER MAY REACH THE DUNES AROUND THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE. 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.