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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 2, 2020, 2:49 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 2, 2020, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2020, 2:49 AM CST (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 2, 2020, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2020, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 18 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 08:51 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, 8.8 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
859 WHUS44 KCRP 020849 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 249 AM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-030000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0003.200302T1200Z-200303T0600Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 249 AM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through 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. && $$ TC
2 follow-up statements
376 WHUS44 KCRP 022047 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 247 PM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-030600- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200303T0600Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 247 PM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until midnight CST tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
144 WHUS44 KCRP 022047 CCA CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message...CORRECTED National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 247 PM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-030600- /O.COR.KCRP.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-200303T0600Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 247 PM CST Mon Mar 2 2020 ...MODERATE RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until midnight CST tonight. * 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. && $$
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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.