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Rip Current Statement 17, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 9, 2024, 4:10 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2024, 4:10 AM CDT (09:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 2024, 4:04 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 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 09:13 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, 9.2 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
- 1547 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 768 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted.
045 WHUS44 KBRO 090910 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 410 AM CDT Tue Apr 9 2024 TXZ451-454-455-101000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0017.240409T0910Z-240411T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 410 AM CDT Tue Apr 9 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
468 WHUS44 KBRO 101149 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 649 AM CDT Wed Apr 10 2024 TXZ451-454-455-111000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240412T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 649 AM CDT Wed Apr 10 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
207 WHUS44 KBRO 110904 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 404 AM CDT Thu Apr 11 2024 TXZ451-454-455-111015- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0017.000000T0000Z-240412T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 404 AM CDT Thu Apr 11 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Observations along the Lower Texas Coast suggest that seas are improving, and therefore the High Risk of rip currents at the local beaches for today has been cancelled. However, a Moderate Risk of rip currents is in effect at the local beaches for today and through at least sunset Friday. $$ 63
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 2:02 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:46 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 30 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.