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Rip Current Statement 48, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 13, 2022, 3:47 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 13, 2022, 9:00 AM CST. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 2022, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 13, 2022, 9:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2022, 8:00 PM CST
- In force
- 11 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 09:52 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, 9.8 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
- 886 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted.
195 WHUS44 KBRO 130947 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 347 AM CST Tue Dec 13 2022 TXZ451-454-455-140200- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0048.221213T1500Z-221214T0200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 347 AM CST Tue Dec 13 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 9 AM CST this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
673 WHUS44 KBRO 140208 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 808 PM CST Tue Dec 13 2022 TXZ451-454-455-150000- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0048.000000T0000Z-221214T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0049.221214T1200Z-221215T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 808 PM CST Tue Dec 13 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST Wednesday through Wednesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.