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Rip Current Statement 26, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 2, 2025, 1:31 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 2, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 2, 2025, 1:31 AM CST (07:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 2, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 2, 2025, 6:00 PM 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 07:33 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, 7.5 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
- 1393 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 917 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted.
695 WHUS44 KBRO 020731 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 131 AM CST Sun Nov 2 2025 TXZ451-454-455-021900- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0026.251102T1200Z-251103T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 131 AM CST Sun Nov 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through this 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
120 WHUS44 KBRO 021215 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 615 AM CST Sun Nov 2 2025 TXZ451-454-455-030000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0026.000000T0000Z-251103T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 615 AM CST Sun Nov 2 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 79 min | |
| Nov 1, 7:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 32 min | |
| Nov 1, 7:40 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 65 min | |
| Nov 1, 7:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 37 min |
| Nov 1, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy | 63 min |
| Nov 1, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 39 min | |
| Nov 1, 8:43 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 47 min | |
| Nov 1, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Kenedy, Willacy | 61 min |
| Nov 1, 9:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 30 min | |
| Nov 1, 9:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 46 min | |
| Nov 1, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron, Willacy | 48 min |
| Nov 1, 9:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 43 min | |
| Nov 1, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 21 min | |
| Nov 1, 10:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 38 min | |
| Nov 1, 10:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BRO | Cameron | 47 min |
| Nov 1, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Willacy | 28 min |
| Nov 1, 10:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Jim Hogg | 25 min |
| Nov 1, 11:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Brooks | 36 min |
| Nov 2, 12:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Hidalgo | 52 min |
| Nov 2, 1:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Cameron | 50 min |
| Nov 2, 1:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 34 min | |
| Nov 2, 1:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 47 min | |
| Nov 2, 1:55 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Cameron | 50 min |
| Nov 2, 1:28 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | BRO | 32 min | |
| Nov 2, 1:47 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BRO | Cameron | 13 min |
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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.