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Rip Current Statement 33, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Dec 7, 2025, 2:55 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Dec 7, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 7, 2025, 2:55 AM CST (08:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 7, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Dec 8, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 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.
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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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
819 WHUS44 KBRO 070855 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 255 AM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 TXZ451-454-455-080000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0033.251208T0000Z-251209T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 255 AM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Monday 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
566 WHUS44 KBRO 071827 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1227 PM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 TXZ451-454-455-080600- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0033.251208T0000Z-251209T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 1227 PM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM CST THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Monday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
726 WHUS44 KBRO 080054 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 654 PM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 TXZ451-454-455-081200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0033.000000T0000Z-251209T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 654 PM CST Sun Dec 7 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
388 WHUS44 KBRO 081237 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 637 AM CST Mon Dec 8 2025 TXZ451-454-455-090000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0033.000000T0000Z-251209T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 637 AM CST Mon Dec 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
234 WHUS44 KBRO 090002 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 602 PM CST Mon Dec 8 2025 TXZ451-454-455-090115- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0033.000000T0000Z-251209T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 602 PM CST Mon Dec 8 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Conditions have improved at area beaches and the rip current risk has decreased. A Moderate Risk of Rip Currents will be present at area beaches tonight. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 10:14 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 44 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.