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Rip Current Statement 25, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 27, 2020, 3:38 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It took effect at Jun 27, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2020, 3:38 AM CDT (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 27, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2020, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 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 08:41 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, 8.6 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
- 2656 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 595 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted.
122 WHUS44 KHGX 270838 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 338 AM CDT Sat Jun 27 2020 TXZ436>438-271645- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0025.200627T1200Z-200628T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 338 AM CDT Sat Jun 27 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...From 7 AM CDT this morning 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
060 WHUS44 KHGX 272244 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 544 PM CDT Sat Jun 27 2020 TXZ436>438-280500- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0025.000000T0000Z-200628T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 544 PM CDT Sat Jun 27 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents expected along Gulf-facing beaches. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until midnight CDT tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.