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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Aug 8, 2021, 2:27 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2021, 2:27 PM CDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2021, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 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 19:30 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, 7.5 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
- 1994 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
634 WHUS44 KCRP 081927 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 227 PM CDT Sun Aug 8 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-090400- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0011.210808T1927Z-210809T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 227 PM CDT Sun Aug 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...This afternoon through Monday morning. * 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. && $$ BF
2 follow-up statements
835 WHUS44 KCRP 090344 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1044 PM CDT Sun Aug 8 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-091200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-210809T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1044 PM CDT Sun Aug 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT MONDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...This afternoon through Monday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TC
595 WHUS44 KCRP 091156 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 656 AM CDT Mon Aug 9 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-091300- /O.EXP.KCRP.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-210809T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 656 AM CDT Mon Aug 9 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING... The high rip current risk will be allowed to expire, however, lingering long period swells will maintain a moderate rip current risk today. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 3:19 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Live Oak and 4 more | 16 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.