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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 10, 2020, 5:02 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2020, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2020, 7:00 PM 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 00:00Z, 10.0 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
263 WHUS44 KCRP 101002 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 502 AM CDT Tue Mar 10 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-101815- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0005.200310T1002Z-200311T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 502 AM CDT Tue Mar 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * 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. && $$ 87
1 follow-up statement
101 WHUS44 KCRP 101830 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 130 PM CDT Tue Mar 10 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-110000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-200311T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 130 PM CDT Tue Mar 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 7:59 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | CRP | 5 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.