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Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 9, 2025, 4:01 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Jan 9, 2025, 6:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2025, 4:01 AM CST (10:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2025, 6:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
Counties Aransas County, TX, Calhoun County, TX, Kleberg County, TX, Nueces County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 2035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 120 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1386 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
424 WHUS44 KCRP 091001 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 401 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-091815- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0001.250109T1200Z-250110T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 401 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...This morning through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. 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. && $$ JCP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 4:00 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 50 hr | |
| Jan 9, 1:27 PM CST | Freeze Watch | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio | 39 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:27 PM CST | Freeze Warning | CRP | Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells, Kleberg and 8 more | 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.