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Rip Current Statement 2, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Feb 9, 2020, 3:46 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It took effect at Feb 9, 2020, 4:00 AM CST. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 9, 2020, 3:46 AM CST (09:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 9, 2020, 4:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2020, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 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 09:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
576 WHUS44 KHGX 090946 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 346 AM CST Sun Feb 9 2020 TXZ436>438-091800- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0002.200209T1000Z-200210T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 346 AM CST Sun Feb 9 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Along Gulf facing beaches in the Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through this 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
482 WHUS44 KHGX 092037 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 237 PM CST Sun Feb 9 2020 TXZ436>438-100445- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-200211T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 237 PM CST Sun Feb 9 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Along Gulf facing beaches in the Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
499 WHUS44 KHGX 101350 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 750 AM CST Mon Feb 10 2020 TXZ436>438-102200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0002.000000T0000Z-200211T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 750 AM CST Mon Feb 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Along Gulf facing beaches in the Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Monday afternoon. * 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. && $$
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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.