Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 10, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Jul 1, 2024, 11:39 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2024, 11:39 AM CDT (16:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 2, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 2223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
501 WHUS44 KCRP 011639 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1139 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-020600- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0010.240701T1639Z-240702T0600Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1139 AM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. 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. && $$ BF
1 follow-up statement
236 WHUS44 KCRP 012333 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 633 PM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-020745- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0010.000000T0000Z-240702T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 633 PM CDT Mon Jul 1 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2024Every rip current statement in 2024
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.