Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2016
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 9, 2016, 4:28 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2016, 4:28 AM CST (10:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2016, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 16 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 10:30 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, 10.5 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
- 2133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 929 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
765 WHUS44 KCRP 091028 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 428 AM CST WED MAR 9 2016 ...HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY ALONG GULF FACING BEACHES... .LONG PERIOD SWELLS AND ELEVATED SWELL HEIGHTS TODAY WILL RESULT IN A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS MAY ALSO BE POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY. TXZ242-243-245-247-092200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0001.160309T1028Z-160310T0200Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 428 AM CST WED MAR 9 2016 ...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...THROUGH EARLY EVENING. * 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. && $$ TB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 8:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 26 min |
| Mar 8, 8:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 37 min |
| Mar 8, 10:34 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 1:43 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Calhoun | 32 min |
| Mar 9, 1:54 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Refugio, San Patricio | 21 min |
| Mar 9, 2:20 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Refugio, San Patricio, Victoria | 25 min |
| Mar 9, 2:49 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 56 min |
| Mar 9, 2:51 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Victoria | 39 min |
| Mar 9, 4:41 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | La Salle | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 5:52 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 23 min |
| Mar 9, 6:19 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 6:26 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Mar 9, 6:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 6:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Webb | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 7:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 49 min |
| Mar 9, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Duval, La Salle, McMullen, Webb | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 38 min |
| Mar 9, 7:24 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 7:24 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 36 min | |
| Mar 9, 7:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Refugio, San Patricio | 47 min |
| Mar 9, 8:03 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 87 min | |
| Mar 9, 8:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Kleberg, Nueces and 3 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:22 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 23 min |
| Mar 9, 8:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 8:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Goliad, Refugio, Victoria | 42 min |
| Mar 9, 8:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 9:03 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Refugio | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 9:18 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Live Oak | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 26 min |
| Mar 9, 9:24 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 9:26 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Victoria | 34 min |
| Mar 9, 9:31 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 29 min | |
| Mar 9, 9:40 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Aransas | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 10:29 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | San Patricio | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 11:17 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 118 min |
| Mar 9, 11:27 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Calhoun, Victoria | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 1:58 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 62 min | |
| Mar 9, 2:50 PM CST | River Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 68 hr |
| Mar 9, 2:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 46 min |
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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.