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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 26, 2015, 9:34 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2015, 9:34 AM CDT (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2015, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 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
- 3527 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
327 WHUS44 KCRP 261434 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 934 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY... .PERSISTENT MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY STRONG ONSHORE FLOW AND ELEVATED SWELLS WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG GULF-FACING BEACHES. TXZ242-243-245-247-262300- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0009.150526T1434Z-150527T0500Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 934 AM CDT TUE MAY 26 2015 ...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 THIS LATE EVENING * IMPACTS...WILL POSE A HAZARD TO EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS ESPECIALLY NEAR JETTIES AND PIERS. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
759 WHUS44 KCRP 262003 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 303 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 2015 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE EVENING... .PERSISTENT MODERATE TO OCCASIONALLY STRONG ONSHORE FLOW AND ELEVATED SWELLS WILL MAINTAIN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH THE EVENING ALONG GULF-FACING BEACHES. TXZ242-243-245-247-270500- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-150527T0500Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 303 PM CDT TUE MAY 26 2015 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... * TIMING...THROUGH THIS LATE EVENING * IMPACTS...WILL POSE A HAZARD TO EVEN EXPERIENCED SWIMMERS ESPECIALLY NEAR JETTIES AND PIERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$ CB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:39 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Live Oak | 2 hr |
| May 25, 8:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Karnes | 44 min |
| May 25, 8:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 28 min |
| May 25, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 2 hr |
| May 25, 9:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 17 min |
| May 25, 9:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 50 min |
| May 25, 10:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 37 min |
| May 25, 10:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 28 min |
| May 25, 10:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 35 min |
| May 25, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 47 min |
| May 25, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 26 min |
| May 25, 10:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 3 hr |
| May 25, 11:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 37 min |
| May 25, 11:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 44 min |
| May 25, 11:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 25 min |
| May 25, 11:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Jackson | 21 min |
| May 25, 11:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio | 3 hr |
| May 26, 12:50 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Refugio | 25 min |
| May 26, 1:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Refugio | 27 min |
| May 26, 1:22 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 113 min | |
| May 26, 1:31 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Refugio | 3 hr |
| May 26, 1:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Calhoun | 28 min |
| May 26, 2:17 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Calhoun | 58 min |
| May 26, 9:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak, McMullen | 10 days |
| May 26, 9:44 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Live Oak | 50 hr |
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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.