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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 17, 2024, 3:40 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2024, 3:40 AM CST (09:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 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 09:44 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, 9.7 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
152 WHUS44 KBRO 170940 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 340 AM CST Sat Feb 17 2024 TXZ451-454-455-171800- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0008.240217T0940Z-240219T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 340 AM CST Sat Feb 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday afternoon. * 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
806 WHUS44 KBRO 171754 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1154 AM CST Sat Feb 17 2024 TXZ451-454-455-181200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-240219T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 1154 AM CST Sat Feb 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Sunday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
692 WHUS44 KBRO 180916 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 316 AM CST Sun Feb 18 2024 TXZ451-454-455-190000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-240219T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 316 AM CST Sun Feb 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * 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. && $$
683 WHUS44 KBRO 190023 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 623 PM CST Sun Feb 18 2024 TXZ451-454-455-190130- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-240219T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 623 PM CST Sun Feb 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Surf conditions are expected to continue to improve into the new week. Dangerous and life-threatening rip currents remain possible, especially near the jetties. $$ 56
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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.