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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 11, 2021, 2:24 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 11, 2021, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 11, 2021, 2:24 AM CST (08:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 11, 2021, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2021, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- 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 08:23 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, 8.4 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
495 WHUS44 KCRP 110824 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 224 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-120000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0002.210311T1200Z-210312T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 224 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through late tonight. * 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. && $$ TC
5 follow-up statements
467 WHUS44 KCRP 112020 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 220 PM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-121200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-210312T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 220 PM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
490 WHUS44 KCRP 120807 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 207 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-130000- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-210313T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 207 AM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$ TC
983 WHUS44 KCRP 122043 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 243 PM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-131200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-210313T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 243 PM CST Fri Mar 12 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
571 WHUS44 KCRP 130839 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 239 AM CST Sat Mar 13 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-132200- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-210314T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 239 AM CST Sat Mar 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Islands of Calhoun, Aransas, Nueces, and Kleberg Counties. * WHEN...Today through Sunday 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. && $$ TMT
638 WHUS44 KCRP 132121 AAA CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 321 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021 TXZ345-442-443-447-141200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-210314T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 321 PM CST Sat Mar 13 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through early Sunday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.