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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 13, 2015, 5:03 AM CDT for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 65 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2015, 5:03 AM CDT (10:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2015, 9:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX, San Patricio County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 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, 10.1 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
- 1539 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 944 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
616 WHUS44 KCRP 131003 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 503 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED TODAY THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON... .RECENT BUOY OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL MODEL OUTPUT SUGGEST THE DEVELOPMENT OF SIGNIFICANT SWELL HEIGHTS AND LONG PERIOD SWELLS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS. IN ADDITION...PREDOMINATE MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW IS EXPECTED TO PERSIST TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE COMBINATION OF THE FOREGOING WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST TODAY THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. TXZ242>245-247-131815- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0010.150613T1003Z-150614T1800Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 503 AM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED 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. && $$ 87
8 follow-up statements
993 WHUS44 KCRP 131724 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1224 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS LIKELY THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS COMBINED WITH A PERSISTENT ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS WEEKEND. TXZ242>245-247-140330- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150615T0300Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1224 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * TIMING...THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
311 WHUS44 KCRP 140307 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1007 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS LIKELY TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS COMBINED WITH A PERSISTENT ONSHORE FLOW WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS WEEKEND. TXZ242>245-247-141100- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150615T0300Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1007 PM CDT SAT JUN 13 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * TIMING...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED 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. && $$ TE
999 WHUS44 KCRP 141025 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 525 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED TO PERSIST TODAY... .THE COMBINATION OF LONG PERIOD SWELLS AND PERSISTENT GENERALLY MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS TODAY. TXZ242>245-247-141830- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150615T0300Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 525 AM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * TIMING...TODAY. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ 87
833 WHUS44 KCRP 141952 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 252 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED TO PERSIST INTO THIS EVENING... .THE COMBINATION OF LONG PERIOD SWELLS AND PERSISTENT GENERALLY MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THIS EVENING. TXZ242>245-247-150300- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150615T0300Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 252 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * TIMING...LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED 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. && $$
803 WHUS44 KCRP 150218 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 918 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO RIP CURRENTS EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH MONDAY... .THE COMBINATION OF LONG PERIOD SWELLS AND PERSISTENT GENERALLY MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS THROUGH MONDAY AND POSSIBLY THROUGH MID WEEK. TXZ242>245-247-151100- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150615T2300Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 918 PM CDT SUN JUN 14 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * TIMING...TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITION FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ TE
980 WHUS44 KCRP 151008 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 508 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT... .AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL PRODUCE LARGE LONG PERIOD SWELLS AND MODERATE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW THROUGH TONIGHT. THESE CONDITIONS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ALONG GULF-FACING BEACHES. TXZ242>245-247-151815- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150616T1100Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 508 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED 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. && $$ MB
219 WHUS44 KCRP 151656 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1156 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...DANGEROUS RIP CURRENTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY... .AN APPROACHING LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO WILL PRODUCE LARGE LONG PERIOD SWELLS WITH MODERATE TO STRONG ONSHORE FLOW TODAY AND AGAIN TUESDAY. THESE CONDITIONS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIFE-THREATENING RIP CURRENTS ALONG GULF-FACING BEACHES. TXZ242>245-247-160500- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150617T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1156 AM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * TIMING...TODAY THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY EVENING. * IMPACTS...HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ TMT/MB
168 WHUS44 KCRP 160239 AAA CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 939 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...RIP CURRENT RISK HAS BEEN REPLACED BY TROPICAL STORM WARNING... .A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COASTAL WATERS. AS A RESULT...THE TXZ242>245-247-160345- /O.CAN.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-150617T0000Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 939 PM CDT MON JUN 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS REPLACED WITH A TROPICAL STORM WARNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS REPLACED THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK PRODUCT...AND REPLACED IT WITH A TROPICAL STORM WARNING. THERE STILL REMAINS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. $$ GW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:23 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 39 hr |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2015Every rip current statement in 2015
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.