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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 16, 2024, 4:07 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 51 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2024, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 562 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -690 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 506 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
872 WHUS44 KCRP 162107 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 407 PM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-171200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0004.240416T2107Z-240417T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 407 PM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$ 87
3 follow-up statements
648 WHUS44 KCRP 170721 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 221 AM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-180000- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-240418T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 221 AM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ NMP
633 WHUS44 KCRP 172205 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 505 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-181200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-240418T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 505 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$ ANM
467 WHUS44 KCRP 180657 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 157 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 TXZ345-442-443-447-190000- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-240419T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 157 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TC
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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.