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Rip Current Statement 58, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 13, 2021, 7:18 AM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 13, 2021, 7:18 AM CST (13:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 2021, 6:59 AM CST
- In force
- 24 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 13:20 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, 1.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
489 WHUS44 KBRO 131318 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 718 AM CST Sat Nov 13 2021 TXZ256-257-351-132130- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0058.211113T1318Z-211114T1300Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 718 AM CST Sat Nov 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Willacy, Coastal Cameron and Coastal Kenedy Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$ Castillo
2 follow-up statements
612 WHUS44 KBRO 132356 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 556 PM CST Sat Nov 13 2021 TXZ256-257-351-140800- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0058.000000T0000Z-211114T1300Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 556 PM CST Sat Nov 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Coastal Willacy, Coastal Cameron and Coastal Kenedy Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
842 WHUS44 KBRO 141259 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 659 AM CST Sun Nov 14 2021 TXZ256-257-351-141400- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0058.000000T0000Z-211114T1300Z/ Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy- 659 AM CST Sun Nov 14 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The risk for high rip currents has ended. There is still a moderate risk of rip currents today. $$
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.