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Rip Current Statement 41, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jul 8, 2021, 8:28 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2021, 8:28 AM CDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2021, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 13 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 13:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Lake Charles Mun, LA (KLCH), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2090 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
504 WHUS44 KHGX 081328 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 828 AM CDT Thu Jul 8 2021 TXZ436>439-082130- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0041.210708T1328Z-210709T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 828 AM CDT Thu Jul 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
655 WHUS44 KHGX 081952 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 252 PM CDT Thu Jul 8 2021 TXZ436>439-090200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0041.000000T0000Z-210709T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 252 PM CDT Thu Jul 8 2021 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Jackson | 53 min |
| Jul 7, 8:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 106 min | |
| Jul 7, 10:17 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 11:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 97 min | |
| Jul 8, 12:58 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 39 hr | |
| Jul 8, 2:44 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 26 min | |
| Jul 8, 4:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 4:37 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 53 min | |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Wharton | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Jackson, Matagorda, Wharton | 3 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.