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Rip Current Statement 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 15, 2015, 1:07 PM CST for 5 counties in Texas. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2015, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2015, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 27 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 19:07 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, 7.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 680 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
810 WHUS44 KCRP 151907 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 107 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND LIKELY MONDAY... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY FOR ABNORMALLY HIGH TIDES THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS... .SWELLS HAVE INCREASED TO 5 FEET AND 8 SECONDS OVER THE GULF WATERS. WITH SUSTAINED MODERATE EAST WINDS...THIS WILL INCREASE THE RIP CURRENT RISK TO HIGH FOR THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL LIKELY BE HIGH ON MONDAY. ALSO...THE MORE EASTERLY FLOW AND HIGH SWELLS ARE PUSHING HIGHER THAN PREDICTED TIDES TOWARD SOUTH TEXAS BEACHES...MAINLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF PORT ARANSAS. WATER WILL PROBABLY REACH THE DUNES OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF SOUTH TEXAS BEACHES NEAR AND SOUTH OF PORT ARANSAS. TXZ242-243-160500- /O.NEW.KCRP.CF.Y.0011.151115T2200Z-151116T0400Z/ /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0014.151115T1907Z-151116T2200Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES- 107 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CST THIS EVENING. A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED. THIS HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. THIS IS FOR THE COUNTIES OF KLEBERG AND NUECES. * COASTAL FLOODING...TIDAL LEVELS AT OR ABOVE 2 FEET ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL DURING THIS AFTERNOON'S HIGH TIDE CYCLE. * TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH COASTAL FLOODING HAVING THE GREATEST CONCERN BETWEEN 4 PM AND 11 PM. * IMPACTS...VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. WATER WILL REACH UP TO THE DUNES ON MUSTANG AND PADRE ISLANDS. MINOR FLOODING WILL OCCUR ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH BEACH AND LAGUNA SHORES DRIVE IN CORPUS CHRISTI. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY INDICATES THAT ONSHORE WINDS AND TIDES WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS ALONG THE SHORE. 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. && $$ TXZ244-245-247-160500- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0014.151115T1907Z-151116T2200Z/ SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 107 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE COUNTIES OF ARANSAS...CALHOUN AND SMALL PORTIONS OF SAN PATRICIO COUNTIES. * TIMING...THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ GW
2 follow-up statements
792 WHUS44 KCRP 160418 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1018 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... .SWELLS OF 5 FEET AND WITH A PERIOD OF 8 SECONDS OVER THE GULF WATERS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE GULF WATERS OF THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. WITH SUSTAINED MODERATE EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS...THIS WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. TXZ242-243-161200- /O.EXP.KCRP.CF.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-151116T0400Z/ /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-151116T2200Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES- 1018 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... * TIMING...THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...VERY DANGEROUS 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. && $$ TXZ244-245-247-161200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-151116T2200Z/ SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1018 PM CST SUN NOV 15 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * TIMING...THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...VERY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS FOR EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ TMT/GW
982 WHUS44 KCRP 162215 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 415 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015 ...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW EXPECTED DURING THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY MORNING... .TIDAL LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 2 FEET ABOVE MEAN SEA LEVEL ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST FOR TONIGHT'S HIGH TIDE. AS A RESULT...MINOR TIDAL OVERFLOW CAN BE EXPECTED DURING THE HIGH TIDE CYCLE THIS EVENING AND EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. TXZ242>245-247-170900- /O.EXP.KCRP.RP.S.0014.000000T0000Z-151116T2200Z/ /O.NEW.KCRP.CF.Y.0012.151117T0000Z-151117T0900Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-SAN PATRICIO-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 415 PM CST MON NOV 16 2015 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST TUESDAY... ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI HAS ISSUED A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST TUESDAY. * COASTAL FLOODING...TIDAL LEVELS SLIGHTLY ABOVE 2 FEET MEAN SEA LEVEL DURING HIGH TIDE. * TIMING...HIGH TIDE AT BOB HALL PIER 820 PM. HIGH TIDE AT PORT ARANSAS IS 828 PM. HIGH TIDE AT PORT OCONNOR IS 141 AM TUESDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...WATER WILL REACH UP TO THE DUNES ON MUSTANG AND PADRE ISLANDS AT THE TIME OF HIGH TIDE. MINOR FLOODING WILL OCCUR ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTH BEACH AND LAGUNA SHORES DRIVE IN CORPUS CHRISTI. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY INDICATES THAT ONSHORE WINDS AND TIDES WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS ALONG THE SHORE. && $$ HEAVENER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:07 PM CST | Coastal Flood Advisory | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 9 hr |
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.