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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 24, 2026, 1:00 AM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 24, 2026, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 48 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2026, 1:00 AM CST (07:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2026, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2026, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 48 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Brownsville, TX
Counties Cameron County, TX, Kenedy County, TX, Willacy County, TX
The radar
The Brownsville radar (KBRO), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brownsville Intl, TX (KBRO), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1375 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
777 WHUS44 KBRO 240700 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 100 AM CST Tue Feb 24 2026 TXZ451-454-455-260000- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0011.260225T0000Z-260226T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 100 AM CST Tue Feb 24 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...From this evening through Wednesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
617 WHUS44 KBRO 250406 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 1006 PM CST Tue Feb 24 2026 TXZ451-454-455-251215- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-260226T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 1006 PM CST Tue Feb 24 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Wednesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
776 WHUS44 KBRO 250733 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 133 AM CST Wed Feb 25 2026 TXZ451-454-455-260000- /O.EXT.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-260227T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 133 AM CST Wed Feb 25 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. 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. && $$
185 WHUS44 KBRO 252351 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 551 PM CST Wed Feb 25 2026 TXZ451-454-455-261200- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-260227T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 551 PM CST Wed Feb 25 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
223 WHUS44 KBRO 260957 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 357 AM CST Thu Feb 26 2026 TXZ451-454-455-270000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-260227T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 357 AM CST Thu Feb 26 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Through this afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. 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. && $$
365 WHUS44 KBRO 270009 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 609 PM CST Thu Feb 26 2026 TXZ451-454-455-270115- /O.EXP.KBRO.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-260227T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 609 PM CST Thu Feb 26 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK HAS EXPIRED... Buoy observations along the Lower Texas Coast indicate that seas are gradually this evening. As a result, there is no longer a High Risk of rip currents at the local beaches. However, there is now a Moderate Risk of rip currents at the beaches along the Lower Texas Coast from now until around sunset Saturday. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Brownsville, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 12:29 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | BRO | 48 hr | |
| Feb 24, 12:51 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BRO | Brooks, Cameron, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Kenedy, Starr and 2 more | 10 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.