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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 22, 2025, 9:36 AM CST for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 32 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2025, 9:36 AM CST (15:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2025, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 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 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 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
- 957 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1819 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3579 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted.
206 WHUS44 KCRP 221536 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 936 AM CST Sat Feb 22 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-231200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0003.250222T1536Z-250223T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 936 AM CST Sat Feb 22 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$ EMF
1 follow-up statement
250 WHUS44 KCRP 230738 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 138 AM CST Sun Feb 23 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-231545- /O.EXT.KCRP.RP.S.0003.000000T0000Z-250224T0000Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 138 AM CST Sun Feb 23 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.