Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2022
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 8, 2022, 10:57 AM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2022, 10:57 AM CST (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2022, 12:00 AM CST
- 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 16:59 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, 5.0 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
- 352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
742 WHUS44 KHGX 081657 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1057 AM CST Sat Jan 8 2022 TXZ436>439-090100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0001.220108T1657Z-220109T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1057 AM CST Sat Jan 8 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, 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. 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
444 WHUS44 KHGX 082035 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 235 PM CST Sat Jan 8 2022 TXZ436>439-090445- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-220109T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 235 PM CST Sat Jan 8 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Midnight CST tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 6:13 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | 4 hr | |
| Jan 8, 12:30 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 45 min |
| Jan 8, 1:05 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 55 min |
| Jan 8, 2:02 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 58 min |
| Jan 8, 2:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 25 min |
| Jan 8, 2:59 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 61 min |
| Jan 8, 3:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty | 23 min |
| Jan 8, 3:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris | 33 min |
| Jan 8, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Polk | 35 min |
| Jan 8, 3:29 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 16 min | |
| Jan 8, 3:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 26 min |
| Jan 8, 3:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 24 min |
| Jan 8, 3:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 40 min |
| Jan 8, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 29 min |
| Jan 8, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 31 min |
| Jan 8, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 18 min |
| Jan 8, 4:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | HGX | Liberty | 26 min |
| Jan 8, 5:04 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 56 min |
| Jan 8, 5:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Polk | 37 min |
| Jan 8, 5:21 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 24 min |
| Jan 8, 5:33 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 117 min |
| Jan 8, 5:52 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 23 min |
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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.