Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 7, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 15, 2020, 5:04 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at May 15, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2020, 5:04 AM CDT (10:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 16, 2020, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 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 10:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 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
- 1849 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
The text
As transmitted.
923 WHUS44 KCRP 151004 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 504 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-151800- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0007.200515T1200Z-200517T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 504 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$ ANM
3 follow-up statements
091 WHUS44 KCRP 151937 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 237 PM CDT Fri May 15 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-160900- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-200517T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 237 PM CDT Fri May 15 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ LS
874 WHUS44 KCRP 160827 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 327 AM CDT Sat May 16 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-161800- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-200517T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 327 AM CDT Sat May 16 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces 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. && $$ ANM
277 WHUS44 KCRP 161909 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 209 PM CDT Sat May 16 2020 TXZ345-442-443-447-170000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0007.000000T0000Z-200517T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 209 PM CDT Sat May 16 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2020Every rip current statement in 2020
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.