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Rip Current Statement 15, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 28, 2023, 2:42 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 28, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2023, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 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 07:46 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, 7.7 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
- 2070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
691 WHUS44 KBRO 280742 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 242 AM CDT Tue Mar 28 2023 TXZ451-454-455-281545- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0015.230328T2100Z-230329T1100Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 242 AM CDT Tue Mar 28 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this afternoon through late tonight. * 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
315 WHUS44 KBRO 282111 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 411 PM CDT Tue Mar 28 2023 TXZ451-454-455-291100- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-230329T1100Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 411 PM CDT Tue Mar 28 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
308 WHUS44 KBRO 290839 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 339 AM CDT Wed Mar 29 2023 TXZ451-454-455-291645- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-230330T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 339 AM CDT Wed Mar 29 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday morning. * 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. && $$
431 WHUS44 KBRO 291638 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1138 AM CDT Wed Mar 29 2023 TXZ451-454-455-301200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0015.000000T0000Z-230330T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 1138 AM CDT Wed Mar 29 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through early Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ 53
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 8:22 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 8:47 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 1:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 1:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 2:27 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 93 min |
| Mar 28, 2:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 3:06 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Hidalgo | 114 min |
| Mar 28, 3:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Cameron | 58 min |
| Mar 28, 3:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron | 2 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BRO | Cameron | 115 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.