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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 27, 2025, 11:27 PM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Nov 28, 2025, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 27, 2025, 11:27 PM CST (05:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 28, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 24 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 05:25 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, 5.5 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
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
634 WHUS44 KCRP 280527 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1127 PM CST Thu Nov 27 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-281900- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0013.251129T0000Z-251130T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1127 PM CST Thu Nov 27 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...From Friday evening through Saturday 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. && $$ EMF
3 follow-up statements
984 WHUS44 KCRP 282345 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 545 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-300000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0013.251129T0000Z-251130T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 545 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ EMF
526 WHUS44 KCRP 290536 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1136 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-300000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-251130T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1136 PM CST Fri Nov 28 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$ EMF
604 WHUS44 KCRP 291858 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 1258 PM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-300000- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-251130T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 1258 PM CST Sat Nov 29 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 PM CST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ KRS
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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.