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Rip Current Statement 61, NWS Brownsville, TX

November 22, 2021Kenedy County, Texas

NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 22, 2021, 4:08 AM CST for Kenedy County, Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 22, 2021, 4:08 AM CST (10:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 22, 2021, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 14 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 10:12 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, 10.1 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

049 
WHUS44 KBRO 221008
CFWBRO

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Brownsville TX
408 AM CST Mon Nov 22 2021

TXZ256-257-351-230000-
/O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0061.211122T1008Z-211123T0000Z/
Coastal Willacy-Coastal Cameron-Coastal Kenedy-
408 AM CST Mon Nov 22 2021

...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Dangerous rip currents.

* WHERE...Coastal Willacy, Coastal Cameron and Coastal Kenedy 
  Counties.

* WHEN...Through this afternoon.

* 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.

&&

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 21, 8:38 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Jim Hogg	112 min
Nov 21, 10:21 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Zapata	114 min
Nov 22, 1:05 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BRO	Hidalgo	25 min
Nov 22, 1:34 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	86 min
Nov 22, 2:04 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	116 min
Nov 22, 2:38 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BRO	Hidalgo	82 min

Nearby

Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2021 Every rip current statement in 2021

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.