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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 12, 2024, 4:01 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Dec 12, 2024, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 12, 2024, 4:01 AM CST (10:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 12, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 13, 2024, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 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 10:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 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
- 2860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
424 WHUS44 KCRP 121001 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 401 AM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-122200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0021.241213T0000Z-241214T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 401 AM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Friday 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. && $$ KRS
2 follow-up statements
854 WHUS44 KCRP 122157 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 357 PM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-132200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0021.241213T0000Z-241214T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 357 PM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
212 WHUS44 KCRP 130406 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1006 PM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-140000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-241214T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1006 PM CST Thu Dec 12 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday 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. && $$
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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.