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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 23, 2025, 3:45 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 23, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 23, 2025, 3:45 AM CST (09:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 24, 2025, 5:52 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 09:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 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
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
982 WHUS44 KBRO 230945 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 345 AM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 TXZ451-454-455-231745- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0005.250124T0000Z-250125T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 345 AM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Friday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
811 WHUS44 KBRO 231543 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 943 AM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 TXZ451-454-455-232345- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0005.250124T0000Z-250125T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 943 AM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM CST THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Friday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
197 WHUS44 KBRO 232351 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 551 PM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 TXZ451-454-455-240800- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0005.250124T0000Z-250125T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 551 PM CST Thu Jan 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Friday 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. && $$
544 WHUS44 KBRO 242352 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 552 PM CST Fri Jan 24 2025 TXZ451-454-455-250100- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250125T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 552 PM CST Fri Jan 24 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Wind and seas have subsided allowing the rip current risk to lower to moderate. The rip current risk may need to raised again Saturday and Sunday as south winds increase. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 3:56 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 16 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.