Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2015
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at May 9, 2015, 10:35 PM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 9, 2015, 10:35 PM CDT (03:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2015, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 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 03:34 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 00:00Z, 3.6 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
- 1932 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
968
WHUS44 KHGX 100335
CFWHGX
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
1035 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
.THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. LIFE THREATENING RIP CURRENTS
ARE LIKELY IN THE SURF ZONE.
TXZ214-236>238-102300-
/O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0001.150510T0335Z-150510T2300Z/
BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-GALVESTON-MATAGORDA-
1035 PM CDT SAT MAY 9 2015
...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A
HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY
EVENING.
* TIMING...THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING.
* IMPACTS...POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS. LIFE THREATENING RIP
CURRENTS ARE LIKELY IN THE SURF ZONE.
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 GROINS...
JETTIES AND PIERS. HEED THE ADVICE OF LIFEGUARDS...BEACH PATROL...
FLAGS AND SIGNS. SWIM NEAR A LIFEGUARD.
IF YOU BECOME CAUGHT IN A RIP CURRENT...YELL FOR HELP. REMAIN
CALM...DO NOT EXHAUST YOURSELF AND STAY AFLOAT WHILE WAITING FOR
HELP. IF YOU HAVE TO SWIM OUT OF A RIP CURRENT...SWIM PARALLEL TO
SHORE AND BACK TOWARD THE BEACH WHEN POSSIBLE. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
SWIM DIRECTLY AGAINST A RIP CURRENT AS YOU WILL TIRE QUICKLY.
&&
$$Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2015Every rip current statement in 2015
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.