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Rip Current Statement 42, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Oct 28, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 28, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 2933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
971 WHUS44 KBRO 290000 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 700 PM CDT Fri Oct 28 2022 TXZ451-454-455-292100- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0042.221029T0000Z-221029T2100Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 700 PM CDT Fri Oct 28 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
596 WHUS44 KBRO 290842 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 342 AM CDT Sat Oct 29 2022 TXZ451-454-455-300000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-221030T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 342 AM CDT Sat Oct 29 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.