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Rip Current Statement 42, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Sep 3, 2020, 2:48 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 3, 2020, 2:48 PM CDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2020, 10:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 19 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 19:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 2421 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 800 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
908 WHUS44 KHGX 031948 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 248 PM CDT Thu Sep 3 2020 TXZ436>438-040400- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0042.200903T1948Z-200904T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 248 PM CDT Thu Sep 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
592 WHUS44 KHGX 032238 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 538 PM CDT Thu Sep 3 2020 TXZ436>438-041200- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-200904T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 538 PM CDT Thu Sep 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Friday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
905 WHUS44 KHGX 040850 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 350 AM CDT Fri Sep 4 2020 TXZ436>438-041500- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0042.000000T0000Z-200904T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 350 AM CDT Fri Sep 4 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until 10 AM CDT this morning. * 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 4:00 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda | 14 hr |
| Sep 3, 11:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazos, Burleson, Grimes, Houston, Madison | 59 min |
| Sep 3, 1:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Polk | 38 min |
| Sep 3, 1:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Polk | 51 min |
| Sep 3, 2:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | San Jacinto | 49 min |
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.