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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 3, 2025, 2:14 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 4, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2025, 2:14 AM CST (08:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 4, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2025, 3:38 AM CST
- In force
- 22 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 08:17 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, 8.2 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -489 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 417 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
104 WHUS44 KBRO 030814 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 214 AM CST Mon Mar 3 2025 TXZ451-454-455-050000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0011.250304T1200Z-250305T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 214 AM CST Mon Mar 3 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From Tuesday morning through Tuesday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
786 WHUS44 KBRO 040934 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 334 AM CST Tue Mar 4 2025 TXZ451-454-455-051200- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0011.250304T1200Z-250305T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 334 AM CST Tue Mar 4 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
957 WHUS44 KBRO 050938 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 338 AM CST Wed Mar 5 2025 TXZ451-454-455-051045- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-250305T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 338 AM CST Wed Mar 5 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Buoy observations along the Lower Texas Coast suggest that marine conditions are improving. As a result, the High Risk of rip currents previously in effect until 6 AM CST this morning at the local beaches has been cancelled. However, there is a Moderate Risk of rip currents at the local beaches until around sunset Thursday evening. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2:16 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 37 hr | |
| Mar 3, 2:28 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:55 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 32 hr |
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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.