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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 15, 2024, 6:38 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 41 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2024, 6:38 AM CST (12:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 2024, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 41 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 12:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 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
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 468 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
817 WHUS44 KBRO 151238 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 638 AM CST Mon Jan 15 2024 TXZ451-454-455-161200- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0004.240115T1238Z-240116T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 638 AM CST Mon Jan 15 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...High surf advisory may be needed later today or tonight for breaking waves building over 6 feet. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
019 WHUS44 KBRO 160952 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 352 AM CST Tue Jan 16 2024 TXZ451-454-455-161800- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-240117T0600Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 352 AM CST Tue Jan 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 3:37 AM CST | Gale Warning | BRO | 30 hr | |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Freeze Watch | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Willacy | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 30 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:41 AM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Zapata | 24 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 35 hr |
| Jan 15, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 15, 9:46 AM CST | Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:21 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | BRO | 13 hr | |
| Jan 15, 12:59 PM CST | Hard Freeze Warning | BRO | Brooks, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr, Zapata | 21 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:03 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 1 more | 5 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.