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Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 11, 2022, 3:40 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2022, 3:40 AM CDT (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2022, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 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 08:44 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, 8.7 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
- 1636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -334 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -7.0
The text
As transmitted.
016 WHUS44 KCRP 110840 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 340 AM CDT Wed May 11 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-112100- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0010.220511T0840Z-220512T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 340 AM CDT Wed May 11 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$ 87
2 follow-up statements
163 WHUS44 KCRP 112053 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 353 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-120600- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-220512T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 353 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ BF
990 WHUS44 KCRP 120239 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 939 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-121200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-220512T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 939 PM CDT Wed May 11 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THURSDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Calhoun Islands, Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands and Nueces Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$ TE
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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.