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Rip Current Statement 22, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at May 31, 2024, 2:25 AM CDT for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at May 31, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2024, 2:25 AM CDT (07:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 31, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 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 07:26 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, 7.4 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
- 3403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 904 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted.
685 WHUS44 KBRO 310725 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 225 AM CDT Fri May 31 2024 TXZ451-454-455-010000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0022.240601T0000Z-240602T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 225 AM CDT Fri May 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Saturday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
814 WHUS44 KBRO 312253 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 553 PM CDT Fri May 31 2024 TXZ451-454-455-020000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0022.240601T0000Z-240602T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 553 PM CDT Fri May 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:04 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Hidalgo, Kenedy, Starr, Willacy | 14 hr |
| May 31, 2:41 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 16 hr | |
| May 31, 9:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 2 hr | |
| May 31, 10:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks, Kenedy | 59 min |
| May 31, 11:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Kenedy | 25 min |
| May 31, 11:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 79 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.