Four teenagers were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on South Padre Island, TX during a day with a Moderate risk of rip currents. The four teenagers were swimming past the third sandbar (about 100 feet from shore) in the vicinity of the Inverness Condominiums near the Good Hope Beach Access, when they became distressed.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS BRO wrote it up.
Four teenagers were swimming in the Gulf of Mexico on South Padre Island, TX during a day with a Moderate risk of rip currents. The four teenagers were swimming past the third sandbar (about 100 feet from shore) in the vicinity of the Inverness Condominiums near the Good Hope Beach Access, when they became distressed. Rescue operations were conducted, and three of the individuals were brought to shore with injuries. The remaining individual was found to be face down in the surf and was brought to the shore. Despite medical treatment, the teenager (aged 18) was pronounced dead at the scene.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Brownsville, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 30, 5:20 AM CST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 620 AM CDT SUN MAR 30 2014 .DISCUSSION...UPDATED FOR LATEST AVIATION DISCUSSION BELOW. && .AVIATION...SATELLITE IMAGES AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE MOSTLY HIGH CLOUDS ACROSS THE CWA THIS MORNING. CEILINGS WERE NEAR 11000FT AT KBRO. VISIBILITIES WERE NEAR 6SM WITH FOG AT KPIL. EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL TODAY THROUGH TONIGHT EVEN AS MOISTURE RETURNS ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING AS HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS AND THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO MOVES EASTWARD. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 339 AM CDT SUN MAR 30 2014/ SHORT TERM. /TODAY THROUGH MONDAY/...SATELLITE AND RADAR IMAGES CONTINUE TO INDICATE ELEVATED CONVECTION ACROSS NORTHEAST MEXICO EARLY THIS MORNING BUT WILL NOT MENTION POPS ACROSS THE CWA EVEN AS MID TO UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON WITH A WEAK SHORTWAVE TROUGH MOVING EASTWARD. WILL CONTINUE TO SEE PATCHY FOG DEVELOP ACROSS THE COASTAL SECTIONS THIS MORNING. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE ACROSS THE AREA WILL MOVE EASTWARD ALLOWING SOUTHEAST WINDS TO DEVELOP TODAY AND INCREASE MONDAY AS A LOW LEVEL NOCTURNAL JET DEVELOPS ACROSS THE CWA TONIGHT AND MOVES EASTWARD MONDAY. BOTH THE GFS AND NAM CONTINUE TO BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TEMPERATURES TODAY THROUGH MONDAY SO WILL CONTINUE WITH BLEND OF ADJUSTED MET/MAV MOS THROUGH THE PERIOD. LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...ZONAL FLOW ALOFT SLOWLY BUCKLES TO THE SOUTHWEST BY MIDWEEK AS THE LARGE-SCALE MIDLEVEL TROUGH DROPS DOWN THE CALIFORNIA COAST. AT THE SFC...HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY TRANSIT EASTWARD ALONG THE IMMEDIATE GULF COAST...WHILE THE NEXT SFC LOW DEVELOPS IN EASTERN COLORADO. GRADIENT WILL BEGIN TO TIGHTEN AS EARLY AS TUESDAY...BUT MORE SIGNIFICANTLY WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SMALL CHANCE FOR SHOWERS MAINLY WEDNESDAY AS MIDLEVEL IMPULSES ATTEMPT TO ENHANCE ANY COASTAL SHOWER ACTIVITY. GETTING MORE PESSIMISTIC ON THE OVERALL CHANCES FOR RAINFALL IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL SOAR AGAIN...WITH HIGHS WEDNESDAY REACHING INTO THE LOW 90S. AFTER WEDNESDAY...MODELS STILL NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH THE H5 TROUGH FEATURES. THIS IN TURN IS BRINGING DIFFERENCES IN THE NEXT ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT AND ITS EFFECT ON TEXAS. WILL AGAIN WAIT FOR MODELS TO COME TOGETHER BEFORE FOCUSING RAINFALL POTENTIAL...AND CONTINUE TO HOLD TEMPERATURES IN THE MID TO UPPER 80S UNDER THICKER CIRRUS SHIELD. MARINE... TODAY THROUGH MONDAY...SEAS WERE NEAR 5 FEET WITH SOUTHEAST WINDS NEAR 6 KNOTS AT BUOY020 EARLY THIS MORNING. LIGHT TO MODERATE SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS TODAY BEFORE THE PRESSURE GRADIENT INCREASES TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS AND DEEPENS ACROSS THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES. MODERATE TO STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO TONIGHT INTO MONDAY AS A RESULT. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS TONIGHT AND FOR THE LAGUNA MADRE MONDAY. && .BRO WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... TX...NONE. GM...NONE. && THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE WEB AT: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/RGV 61
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BROWNSVILLE TX 456 AM CDT SUN MAR 30 2014 TXZ248>257-311000- ZAPATA-JIM HOGG-BROOKS-KENEDY-STARR-HIDALGO-INLAND WILLACY- INLAND CAMERON-COASTAL WILLACY-COASTAL CAMERON- 456 AM CDT SUN MAR 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR DEEP SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF RIP CURRENTS AT AREA BEACHES TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AN ELEVATED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS IS LIKELY AT THE LOCAL BEACHES THROUGH THE PERIOD. WIND ADVISORIES POSSIBLE FOR CAMERON...WILLACY AND KENEDY COUNTIES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. GMZ130-132-135-150-155-170-175-311000- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE PORT OF BROWNSVILLE TO THE ARROYO COLORADO- LAGUNA MADRE FROM THE ARROYO COLORADO TO 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TX- LAGUNA MADRE FROM 5 NM NORTH OF PORT MANSFIELD TO BAFFIN BAY TX- COASTAL WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM PORT MANSFIELD TO THE RIO GRANDE EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT MANSFIELD EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 456 AM CDT SUN MAR 30 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE GULF OF MEXICO AND THE LAGUNA MADRE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE POSSIBLE FOR THE OFFSHORE WATERS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COAST TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE POSSIBLE FOR PORTIONS OF THE LOWER TEXAS COASTAL WATERS MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AND ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. CASTILLO
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
An 18-year-old male swimming near the Inverness Condominiums near the Good Hope Beach Access drowned in a rip current. Three other individuals were rescued, all of whom were brought to shore with injuries and were transported to local hospitals for medical treatment.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Coastal Cameron | 2014-03-30 | 18 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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