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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Aug 23, 2020, 3:52 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Aug 24, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2020, 3:52 PM CDT (20:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 24, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 24, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 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 20:52 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, 8.9 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
- 2344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
521 WHUS44 KCRP 232052 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 352 PM CDT Sun Aug 23 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-241000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0010.200824T1200Z-200825T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 352 PM CDT Sun Aug 23 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Islands of Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, and Calhoun Counties. * WHEN...From Monday morning through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TMT
2 follow-up statements
473 WHUS44 KCRP 240828 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 328 AM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-242100- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.200824T1200Z-200825T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 328 AM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Islands of Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, and Calhoun Counties. * WHEN...From Monday morning through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
652 WHUS44 KCRP 242108 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 408 PM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-250000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-200825T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 408 PM CDT Mon Aug 24 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Islands of Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces, and Calhoun Counties. * WHEN...Through early this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 27 min |
| Aug 23, 2:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 28 min |
| Aug 23, 3:01 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 29 min |
| Aug 23, 3:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 24 min |
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.