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Rip Current Statement 5, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 18, 2025, 5:21 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 24 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 18, 2025, 5:21 AM CDT (10:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- 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 10:23 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, 10.4 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
- 2368 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
483 WHUS44 KCRP 181021 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 521 AM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-190000- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0005.250318T1200Z-250319T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 521 AM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * 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. && $$ ANM
1 follow-up statement
374 WHUS44 KCRP 182238 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 538 PM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-191200- /O.CON.KCRP.RP.S.0005.000000T0000Z-250319T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 538 PM CDT Tue Mar 18 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the most experienced swimmers away from shore into deeper water. These rip currents can become life-threatening to anyone entering the surf. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$ TE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 3:07 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CRP | La Salle, Webb | 17 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:35 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Calhoun, Duval, Goliad, Jim Wells and 9 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 18, 10:13 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | CRP | Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio and 1 more | 12 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.