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Rip Current Statement 47, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Oct 10, 2020, 3:52 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 10, 2020, 3:52 AM CDT (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 10, 2020, 10:36 AM CDT
- In force
- 7 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 08:54 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, 8.9 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
- 125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted.
607 WHUS44 KHGX 100852 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 352 AM CDT Sat Oct 10 2020 TXZ436>438-101700- /O.CAN.KHGX.CF.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-201010T2000Z/ /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0047.201010T0852Z-201011T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 352 AM CDT Sat Oct 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...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. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...The Coastal Flood Advisory has been cancelled. 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. && $$ TXZ214-313-338-101000- /O.CAN.KHGX.CF.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-201010T2000Z/ Chambers-Coastal Harris-Coastal Galveston- 352 AM CDT Sat Oct 10 2020 ...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... The threat of minor coastal flooding no longer remains, so the Coast Flood Advisory has been cancelled. $$
1 follow-up statement
686 WHUS44 KHGX 101536 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1036 AM CDT Sat Oct 10 2020 TXZ436>438-101645- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0047.000000T0000Z-201011T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 1036 AM CDT Sat Oct 10 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... With conditions improving this morning, the high rip current risk along Gulf-facing beaches has been cancelled. Continue to exercise normal precautions if entering the water and remember to swim near a trained lifeguard. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 9, 10:27 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda | 5 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.