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Rip Current Statement 31, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at May 31, 2021, 7:48 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2021, 7:48 AM CDT (12:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2021, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 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 12:50 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, 0.8 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
- 788 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
446 WHUS44 KHGX 311248 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 748 AM CDT Mon May 31 2021 TXZ436>439-312100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0031.210531T1248Z-210601T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 748 AM CDT Mon May 31 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents along Gulf-facing beaches. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
644 WHUS44 KHGX 312010 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 310 PM CDT Mon May 31 2021 TXZ436>439-010300- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0031.000000T0000Z-210601T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 310 PM CDT Mon May 31 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents along Gulf-facing beaches. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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.