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Rip Current Statement 20, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 3, 2024, 7:15 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 35 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 3, 2024, 7:15 AM CST (13:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 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 13:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KNGP), launched 12:00Z, 1.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
757 WHUS44 KCRP 031315 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 715 AM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-032300- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0020.241203T1315Z-241205T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 715 AM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday afternoon. * 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. && $$ TE
4 follow-up statements
763 WHUS44 KCRP 032040 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 240 PM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-040445- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 240 PM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TE
977 WHUS44 KCRP 040324 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 924 PM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-041000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 924 PM CST Tue Dec 3 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday afternoon. * 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. && $$ KRS
478 WHUS44 KCRP 041132 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 532 AM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-042200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 532 AM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
185 WHUS44 KCRP 050019 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 619 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-050130- /O.EXP.KCRP.RP.S.0020.000000T0000Z-241205T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 619 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Decreasing winds and swell will temporarily allow for the rip risk to abate. However, there will likely be an increasing risk by late week as onshore flow increases again. $$
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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.