Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2020
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 9, 2020, 9:31 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 44 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2020, 9:31 AM CST (15:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2020, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The radar
The Houston radar (KHGX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 238 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted.
228 WHUS44 KHGX 091531 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 931 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 TXZ436>438-101200- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0001.200109T1531Z-200110T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 931 AM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
224 WHUS44 KHGX 092106 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 306 PM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 TXZ436>438-100515- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-200111T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 306 PM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
533 WHUS44 KHGX 100333 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 933 PM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 TXZ436>438-101245- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-200111T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 933 PM CST Thu Jan 9 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday 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. && $$
943 WHUS44 KHGX 101019 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 419 AM CST Fri Jan 10 2020 TXZ436>438-110000- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-200111T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 419 AM CST Fri Jan 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 9:49 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 71 hr | |
| Jan 9, 3:06 PM CST | Gale Warning | HGX | 13 hr | |
| Jan 9, 3:06 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 48 hr |
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.