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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 21, 2022, 3:47 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 21, 2022, 3:47 AM CDT (08:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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 08:46 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, 8.8 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
479 WHUS44 KCRP 210847 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 347 AM CDT Mon Mar 21 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-220000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0002.220321T0847Z-220322T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 347 AM CDT Mon Mar 21 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Today through Tuesday 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. && $$ CB
1 follow-up statement
480 WHUS44 KCRP 220809 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 309 AM CDT Tue Mar 22 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-230000- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-220323T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 309 AM CDT Tue Mar 22 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Islands of Aransas, Kleberg, Nueces and Calhoun Counties. * WHEN...Through early this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TMT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 3:43 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | CRP | Bee, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:43 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CRP | Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, McMullen and 2 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 21, 1:18 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 6 hr |
| Mar 21, 2:49 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 44 hr | |
| Mar 21, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 27 min |
| Mar 21, 6:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Live Oak | 24 min |
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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.