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Rip Current Statement 30, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 28, 2025, 2:21 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Nov 28, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 36 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 28, 2025, 2:21 AM CST (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 28, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 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 08:23 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, 8.4 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 975 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
012 WHUS44 KBRO 280821 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 221 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ451-454-455-281630- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0030.251128T1200Z-251130T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 221 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM CST THIS MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From 6 AM CST this morning through Saturday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
998 WHUS44 KBRO 280920 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 320 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ451-454-455-291045- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0030.251128T1200Z-251130T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 320 AM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
727 WHUS44 KBRO 290908 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 308 AM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 TXZ451-454-455-300000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0030.000000T0000Z-251130T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 308 AM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...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. && $$
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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.