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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 18, 2022, 2:49 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 18, 2022, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2022, 2:49 AM CST (08:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 18, 2022, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2022, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 24 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 08:49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
005 WHUS44 KCRP 180849 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 249 AM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-190000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0020.221218T1200Z-221219T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 249 AM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 ...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. && $$ TC
2 follow-up statements
587 WHUS44 KCRP 182133 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 333 PM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-191200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-221219T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 333 PM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ 87
624 WHUS44 KCRP 182248 CCA CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message...CORRECTED National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 448 PM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 TXZ345-442-443-447-191200- /O.COR.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-221219T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 448 PM CST Sun Dec 18 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 AM CST Monday 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
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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.