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Rip Current Statement 4, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 10, 2021, 9:54 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2021, 9:54 AM CST (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2021, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 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 15:53 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, 3.9 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
848 WHUS44 KHGX 101554 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 954 AM CST Wed Mar 10 2021 TXZ436>438-110000- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0004.210310T1554Z-210311T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 954 AM CST Wed Mar 10 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Until 8 PM CST 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
105 WHUS44 KHGX 102111 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 311 PM CST Wed Mar 10 2021 TXZ436>438-112145- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-210312T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 311 PM CST Wed Mar 10 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents. * WHERE...Brazoria Islands, Matagorda Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
455 WHUS44 KHGX 110839 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 239 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 TXZ436>438-120100- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0004.000000T0000Z-210312T0100Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands- Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula- 239 AM CST Thu Mar 11 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...High risk of rip currents. * WHERE...Brazoria Islands, Matagorda Islands and Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:07 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 27 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.