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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 24, 2024, 3:25 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 49 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2024, 3:25 AM CDT (08:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2024, 4:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 49 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 08:24 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, 8.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1642 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
455 WHUS44 KBRO 240825 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 325 AM CDT Sun Mar 24 2024 TXZ451-454-455-260000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0013.240324T0825Z-240326T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 325 AM CDT Sun Mar 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
585 WHUS44 KBRO 250836 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 336 AM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 TXZ451-454-455-261200- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240326T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 336 AM CDT Mon Mar 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
179 WHUS44 KBRO 260913 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 413 AM CDT Tue Mar 26 2024 TXZ451-454-455-261015- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240326T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 413 AM CDT Tue Mar 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELED... Observations along the Lower Texas Coast suggest that seas are improving, and therefore the High Risk of rip currents at the local beaches until around sunrise this morning has been canceled a few hours early. However, a Moderate Risk of rip currents is in effect at the local beaches for today and through at least sunset Wednesday. $$ TOMASELLI
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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.