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Beach Hazards Statement 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this beach hazards statement at Apr 1, 2017, 8:41 AM CDT for 4 counties in Texas. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2017, 8:41 AM CDT (13:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2017, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 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 13:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1614 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
975
WHUS44 KHGX 011341
CFWHGX
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX
841 AM CDT SAT APR 1 2017
...ELEVATED TIDES AND A HIGH RISK OF RIP CURRENTS TODAY...
.A STRONG AND PERSISTENT EAST TO SOUTHEAST WINDS HAS PRODUCED ELEVATED TIDES
AND STRONG RIP CURRENTS. TIDE LEVELS WILL RUN 1.0 TO 1.5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL
AND SOME MINOR WAVE RUN UP ALONG THE BEACHES WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE GALVESTON
BEACH PATROL HAS INDICATED THAT SURF CONDITIONS ARE VERY ROUGH AND RIP CURRENTS
REMAIN VERY STRONG.
TXZ214-236>238-020300-
/O.NEW.KHGX.BH.S.0002.170401T1341Z-170402T0300Z/
BRAZORIA-CHAMBERS-GALVESTON-MATAGORDA-
841 AM CDT SAT APR 1 2017
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HOUSTON/GALVESTON HAS ISSUED A
BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR ELEVATED TIDES AND STRONG RIP
CURRENTS, WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING.
* HAZARDS...ELEVATED TIDES, 1.0 TO 1.5 FEET ABOVE NORMAL.
STRONG RIP CURRENTS.
* TIMING...THROUGH THIS EVENING.
* LOCATION...ALONG THE GULF OF MEXICO FACING BEACHES.
* POTENTIAL IMPACTS...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.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THREATS SUCH AS RIP
CURRENTS...LONGSHORE CURRENTS...SNEAKER WAVES AND OTHER HAZARDS
CREATE LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS IN THE SURF ZONE. CAUTION
SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER.
&&
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 10:20 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 40 hr | |
| Apr 1, 1:44 PM CDT | Flood Watch | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Trinity and 1 more | 73 min |
| Apr 1, 2:57 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison, Polk and 3 more | 24 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.