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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 30, 2016, 3:52 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 30, 2016, 3:52 AM CST (09:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 20 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 09:54 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, 9.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2411 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
905 WHUS44 KCRP 300952 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 352 AM CST FRI DEC 30 2016 ...HIGH SWELLS AND SWELL PERIODS TO RESULT IN HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK... .ELEVATED SWELLS AND SWELL PERIODS WILL COMBINE WITH A RETURN OF MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW...RESULTING IN A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR ALL OF THE GULF FACING BEACHES ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. TXZ242-243-245-247-301800- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0021.161230T0952Z-161231T0600Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 352 AM CST FRI DEC 30 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 MIDNIGHT. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS. THE SURF 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. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DONT FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE...FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED...FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$ LK
2 follow-up statements
036 WHUS44 KCRP 301803 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1203 PM CST FRI DEC 30 2016 ...HIGH SWELLS AND SWELL PERIODS TO RESULT IN HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK... .ELEVATED SWELLS AND SWELL PERIODS WILL COMBINE WITH A RETURN OF MODERATE ONSHORE FLOW...RESULTING IN A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK FOR ALL OF THE GULF FACING BEACHES ALONG THE MIDDLE TEXAS COAST THROUGH THIS EVENING. TXZ242-243-245-247-310215- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-161231T0600Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1203 PM CST FRI DEC 30 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * TIMING...THROUGH MIDNIGHT. * IMPACTS...FREQUENT LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS. THE SURF IS DANGEROUS FOR ALL LEVELS OF SWIMMERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS GROINS... JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD. IF CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT REMAIN CALM. DONT FIGHT THE CURRENT. SWIM IN A DIRECTION FOLLOWING THE SHORELINE. IF UNABLE TO ESCAPE...FACE THE SHORE AND CALL OR WAVE FOR HELP. IF TIRED...FLOAT OR TREAD WATER UNTIL OUT OF THE RIP CURRENT. && $$
445 WHUS44 KCRP 310545 CFWCRP COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 1145 PM CST FRI DEC 30 2016 TXZ242-243-245-247-310645- /O.EXP.KCRP.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-161231T0600Z/ KLEBERG-NUECES-ARANSAS-CALHOUN- 1145 PM CST FRI DEC 30 2016 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AS SWELLS HEIGHTS HAVE DECREASED THROUGH THE EVENING. $$
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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.