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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 1, 2022, 2:45 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2022, 2:45 AM CDT (07:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2022, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
Counties Brazoria County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Matagorda County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
161 WHUS44 KHGX 010745 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 245 AM CDT Fri Apr 1 2022 TXZ436>439-011630- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0011.220401T0745Z-220402T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 245 AM CDT Fri Apr 1 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. Do not 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
432 WHUS44 KHGX 011532 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1032 AM CDT Fri Apr 1 2022 TXZ436>439-020000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-220402T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1032 AM CDT Fri Apr 1 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Brazoria Islands, Matagorda Islands, Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island Counties. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
562 WHUS44 KHGX 012033 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 333 PM CDT Fri Apr 1 2022 TXZ436>439-020300- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-220402T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 333 PM CDT Fri Apr 1 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Brazoria Islands, Matagorda Islands, Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island Counties. * WHEN...Until 10 PM CDT 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. && $$
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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.