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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at May 12, 2023, 10:06 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2023, 10:06 PM CDT (03:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2023, 2:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 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 03:07 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, 3.1 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
- 3404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.1
The text
As transmitted.
389 WHUS44 KCRP 130306 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1006 PM CDT Fri May 12 2023 TXZ345-442-443-447-131200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0016.230513T0306Z-230514T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1006 PM CDT Fri May 12 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$ 87
2 follow-up statements
917 WHUS44 KCRP 131938 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 238 PM CDT Sat May 13 2023 TXZ345-442-443-447-140930- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-230515T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 238 PM CDT Sat May 13 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ EMF
758 WHUS44 KCRP 140729 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 229 AM CDT Sun May 14 2023 TXZ345-442-443-447-140830- /O.CAN.KCRP.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-230515T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 229 AM CDT Sun May 14 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... The Rip Current risk is now Moderate along gulf facing beaches of the middle Texas coast. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 8:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 14 hr |
| May 12, 9:03 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Webb | 18 hr |
| May 12, 10:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Zapata | 35 min |
| May 12, 10:49 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Victoria | 6 days |
| May 12, 10:55 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 58 hr |
| May 13, 12:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | McMullen | 93 min |
| May 13, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 117 min | |
| May 13, 3:41 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 64 min |
| May 13, 4:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 44 min |
| May 13, 4:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Live Oak, San Patricio | 36 min |
| May 13, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 60 min |
| May 13, 4:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Bee, Jim Wells, Nueces, San Patricio | 82 min |
| May 13, 5:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | San Patricio | 62 min |
| May 13, 5:15 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Webb | 60 min |
| May 13, 5:26 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| May 13, 5:32 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 58 min | |
| May 13, 5:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces | 50 min |
| May 13, 5:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Kleberg, Nueces | 117 min |
| May 13, 6:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Jim Wells, Live Oak, Nueces, San Patricio | 115 min |
| May 13, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio | 41 min |
| May 13, 6:53 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | McMullen | 112 min |
| May 13, 7:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad, Refugio, San Patricio | 118 min |
| May 13, 7:59 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | McMullen | 3 hr |
| May 13, 8:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Bee | 13 hr |
| May 13, 9:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CRP | Victoria | 3 hr |
| May 13, 11:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | CRP | Nueces | 11 hr |
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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.