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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 25, 2025, 1:16 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Jan 25, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2025, 1:16 AM CST (07:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2025, 3:29 AM CST
- In force
- 33 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 07:20 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, 7.3 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
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
546 WHUS44 KBRO 250716 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 116 AM CST Sat Jan 25 2025 TXZ451-454-455-251530- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0006.250126T0000Z-250127T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 116 AM CST Sat Jan 25 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Sunday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
699 WHUS44 KBRO 260907 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 307 AM CST Sun Jan 26 2025 TXZ451-454-455-271200- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-250127T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 307 AM CST Sun Jan 26 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
463 WHUS44 KBRO 270929 AAA CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message...UPDATED National Weather Service Brownsville TX 329 AM CST Mon Jan 27 2025 TXZ451-454-455-271030- /O.CAN.KBRO.RP.S.0006.000000T0000Z-250127T1200Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 329 AM CST Mon Jan 27 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Buoy observations along the Lower Texas Coast indicate that seas are subsiding. As a result, the High Risk of rip currents is no longer in effect. However, there is a Moderate Risk of rip currents at the local beaches until around sunset this evening. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 3:43 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 24 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.