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Rip Current Statement 6, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 27, 2025, 2:49 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It took effect at Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2025, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2025, 7:00 AM CDT
- 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 19:49 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, 7.8 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 713 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
868 WHUS44 KCRP 271949 CFWCRP Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Corpus Christi TX 249 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025 TXZ345-442-443-447-281200- /O.NEW.KCRP.RP.S.0006.250328T0000Z-250328T1200Z/ Aransas Islands-Kleberg Islands-Nueces Islands-Calhoun Islands- 249 PM CDT Thu Mar 27 2025 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Aransas Islands, Kleberg Islands, Nueces Islands and Calhoun Islands Counties. * WHEN...From 7 PM CDT this evening through Friday 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 10:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 64 min | |
| Mar 26, 11:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 87 min | |
| Mar 27, 1:20 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 85 min | |
| Mar 27, 2:18 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Jim Wells | 42 min |
| Mar 27, 2:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 52 min | |
| Mar 27, 4:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Bee | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 9:13 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Duval | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 10:12 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | CRP | 27 hr | |
| Mar 27, 10:57 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Jim Wells | 63 min |
| Mar 27, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, San Patricio | 65 min |
| Mar 27, 3:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 41 min | |
| Mar 27, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Nueces, San Patricio | 64 min |
| Mar 27, 5:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Duval | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CRP | Kleberg | 39 min |
| Mar 27, 6:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | CRP | 57 min |
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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.