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Rip Current Statement 29, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Oct 14, 2023, 2:50 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Oct 14, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 60 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2023, 2:50 AM CDT (07:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 14, 2023, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 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 07:49 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, 7.8 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
- 1558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.2
- Supercell composite
- -1.4
The text
As transmitted.
101 WHUS44 KBRO 140750 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 250 AM CDT Sat Oct 14 2023 TXZ451-454-455-160000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0029.231014T1200Z-231016T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 250 AM CDT Sat Oct 14 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM CDT this morning through Sunday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
855 WHUS44 KBRO 150009 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 709 PM CDT Sat Oct 14 2023 TXZ451-454-455-151000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-231016T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 709 PM CDT Sat Oct 14 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Slowly strengthening high pressure across the southern Plains will continue to build a northeasterly swell across the western Gulf, sufficient to maintain dangerous and intense rip currents along the barrier island beaches through at least Sunday evening. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ Update...52/BSG
635 WHUS44 KBRO 150749 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 249 AM CDT Sun Oct 15 2023 TXZ451-454-455-170000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-231017T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 249 AM CDT Sun Oct 15 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
849 WHUS44 KBRO 160805 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 305 AM CDT Mon Oct 16 2023 TXZ451-454-455-170000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0029.000000T0000Z-231017T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 305 AM CDT Mon Oct 16 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 29 min |
| Oct 13, 7:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 13 min |
| Oct 13, 8:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Starr | 15 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.