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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 24, 2024, 3:09 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Apr 25, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2024, 3:09 AM CDT (08:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 25, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 6 days
- 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 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 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
- 939 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 707 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted.
471 WHUS44 KBRO 240809 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 309 AM CDT Wed Apr 24 2024 TXZ451-454-455-251000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0020.240425T1500Z-240426T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 309 AM CDT Wed Apr 24 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From Thursday morning 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. && $$ ATE
9 follow-up statements
522 WHUS44 KBRO 250714 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 214 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2024 TXZ451-454-455-270000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.240425T1200Z-240427T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 214 AM CDT Thu Apr 25 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM CDT this morning through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
962 WHUS44 KBRO 261406 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 906 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024 TXZ451-454-455-281200- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240428T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 906 AM CDT Fri Apr 26 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
329 WHUS44 KBRO 270744 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 244 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 TXZ451-454-455-290000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240429T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 244 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
467 WHUS44 KBRO 271251 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 751 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 TXZ451-454-455-291200- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240429T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 751 AM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
173 WHUS44 KBRO 280801 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 301 AM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024 TXZ451-454-455-300000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240430T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 301 AM CDT Sun Apr 28 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
467 WHUS44 KBRO 290738 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 238 AM CDT Mon Apr 29 2024 TXZ451-454-455-291545- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240501T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 238 AM CDT Mon Apr 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday 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. && $$
967 WHUS44 KBRO 292219 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 519 PM CDT Mon Apr 29 2024 TXZ451-454-455-301130- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240501T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 519 PM CDT Mon Apr 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Swell direction has turned easterly this afternoon, changing the nature of the currents from a south-to- north longshore and east to west rip mix to strictly an east- to-west rip current condition. An outflow from earlier thunderstorms more than 200 miles offshore was moving from northeast to southwest late Monday afternoon...and this situation will further increase the rip current intensity this evening and overnight. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ 52/BSG
952 WHUS44 KBRO 300825 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 325 AM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 TXZ451-454-455-010000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240501T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 325 AM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 ...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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...A moderate risk of rip currents is expected tonight and Wednesday and may return to a high risk Thursday. 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. && $$
590 WHUS44 KBRO 010000 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 700 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 TXZ451-454-455-010100- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-240501T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 700 PM CDT Tue Apr 30 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... Observations along the Lower Texas Coast suggest that seas are improving, and therefore the High Risk of rip currents at the local beaches for today will be allowed to expire. However, a Moderate Risk of rip currents is in effect at the local beaches for tonight and through at least sunset Wednesday. $$
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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.