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Rip Current Statement 9, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 2, 2020, 5:33 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 37 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2020, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2020, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 37 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 22:32 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, 10.6 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 875 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted.
328 WHUS44 KHGX 022233 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 533 PM CDT Thu Apr 2 2020 TXZ436>438-030645- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0009.200402T2233Z-200403T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 533 PM CDT Thu Apr 2 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
949 WHUS44 KHGX 031442 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 942 AM CDT Fri Apr 3 2020 TXZ436>438-032245- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-200404T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 942 AM CDT Fri Apr 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
110 WHUS44 KHGX 032027 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 327 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2020 TXZ436>438-040730- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0009.000000T0000Z-200404T1200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 327 PM CDT Fri Apr 3 2020 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
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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.