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Rip Current Statement 3, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Sep 16, 2013, 12:57 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 16, 2013, 12:57 PM CDT (17:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 16, 2013, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Chambers County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WHUS44 KHGX 161757 CFWHGX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 1257 PM CDT MON SEP 16 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK TODAY... .LARGE SURF...STRONG SIDE SHORE CURRENTS AND ELEVATED WATER LEVELS ARE COMBINING TO PRODUCE STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES TODAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR JETTIES AND PIERS. TXZ214-236>238-170100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0003.130916T1757Z-130917T0100Z/ BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-GALVESTON-MATAGORDA- 1257 PM CDT MON SEP 16 2013 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...ALL DAY. * IMPACTS...SWIMMING WILL BE DANGEROUS AT AREA BEACHES. LARGE SURF...STRONG SIDE SHORE CURRENTS AND ELEVATED WATER LEVELS ARE COMBINING TO PRODUCE STRONG RIP CURRENTS ALONG AREA BEACHES TODAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR JETTIES AND PIERS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN THE SANDBAR AND IN THE VICINITY OF STRUCTURES SUCH AS JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS AND THE BEACH PATROL. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND POSTED SIGNS. IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...DO NOT PANIC. REMAIN CALM AND BEGIN TO SWIM PARALLEL TO SHORE. ONCE YOU ARE AWAY FROM THE FORCE OF THE RIP CURRENT...BEGIN TO SWIM BACK TO THE BEACH. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT. EVEN A STRONG SWIMMER CAN BECOME EXHAUSTED QUICKLY. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 16, 3:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Harris | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.