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Rip Current Statement 8, NWS Brownsville, TX
NWS Brownsville, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 4, 2026, 7:44 PM CST for Cameron County, Kenedy County, Willacy County, Texas. It was in force for 22 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 4, 2026, 7:44 PM CST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2026, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 22 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 01:44 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, 1.7 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
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
861 WHUS44 KBRO 050144 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 744 PM CST Wed Feb 4 2026 TXZ451-454-455-051100- /O.NEW.KBRO.RP.S.0008.260205T0144Z-260206T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 744 PM CST Wed Feb 4 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
879 WHUS44 KBRO 051250 CFWBRO Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Brownsville TX 650 AM CST Thu Feb 5 2026 TXZ451-454-455-060000- /O.CON.KBRO.RP.S.0008.000000T0000Z-260206T0000Z/ Kenedy Island-Willacy Island-Cameron Island- 650 AM CST Thu Feb 5 2026 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Kenedy Island, Willacy Island and Cameron Island Counties. * WHEN...Until 6 PM CST this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.