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Rip Current Statement 45, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Aug 17, 2021, 9:05 AM CDT for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 2021, 9:05 AM CDT (14:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2021, 3:38 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
County Kenedy County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 2421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
406 WHUS44 KBRO 171405 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 905 AM CDT Tue Aug 17 2021 TXZ256-257-351-181200- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0045.210817T1405Z-210818T1200Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 905 AM CDT Tue Aug 17 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Willacy, Coastal Cameron and Coastal Kenedy Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
591 WHUS44 KBRO 172037 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 337 PM CDT Tue Aug 17 2021 TXZ256-257-351-181200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0045.000000T0000Z-210818T1200Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 337 PM CDT Tue Aug 17 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Kenedy, Coastal Cameron and Coastal Willacy Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Castillo
015 WHUS44 KBRO 180838 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 338 AM CDT Wed Aug 18 2021 TXZ256-257-351-180945- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0045.000000T0000Z-210818T1200Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 338 AM CDT Wed Aug 18 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The long period swells impacting the lower Texas Coastline this morning have diminished. Accordingly, the high risk of rip currents has been cancelled. $$
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.