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Rip Current Statement 12, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 6, 2025, 2:55 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Mar 6, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2025, 2:55 AM CST (08:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 6, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 12 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 08:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
189 WHUS44 KBRO 060855 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 255 AM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 TXZ451-454-455-061800- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0012.250307T0000Z-250307T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 255 AM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
068 WHUS44 KBRO 061507 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 907 AM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 TXZ451-454-455-062315- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0012.250307T0000Z-250307T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 907 AM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM CST THIS EVENING THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 6 PM CST this evening through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
415 WHUS44 KBRO 070050 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 650 PM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 TXZ451-454-455-071200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-250307T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 650 PM CST Thu Mar 6 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM CST FRIDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 AM CST Friday. * 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. && $$
537 WHUS44 KBRO 071205 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 605 AM CST Fri Mar 7 2025 TXZ451-454-455-071315- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0012.000000T0000Z-250307T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 605 AM CST Fri Mar 7 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Marine conditions are improving, thus the High Risk of rip currents has expired. There is a Moderate Risk of rip currents at the local beaches until Saturday evening. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 6, 2:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BRO | Cameron, Hidalgo, Willacy | 17 hr |
| Mar 6, 2:54 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 27 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.