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Rip Current Statement 32, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jun 14, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2022, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 2022, 3:43 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 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 02:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 2811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 859 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
252 WHUS44 KHGX 150223 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 923 PM CDT Tue Jun 14 2022 TXZ436>439-151030- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0032.220615T0223Z-220616T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 923 PM CDT Tue Jun 14 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late Wednesday night. * 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
890 WHUS44 KHGX 150845 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 345 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 TXZ436>439-151645- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0032.000000T0000Z-220616T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 345 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late Wednesday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
765 WHUS44 KHGX 151435 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 935 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 TXZ436>439-152245- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0032.000000T0000Z-220616T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 935 AM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late Wednesday night. * 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. && $$
884 WHUS44 KHGX 152003 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 303 PM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 TXZ436>439-160415- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0032.000000T0000Z-220616T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 303 PM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT THURSDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late Wednesday night. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
772 WHUS44 KHGX 160237 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 937 PM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 TXZ436>439-161045- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0032.000000T0000Z-220617T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 937 PM CDT Wed Jun 15 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through late Thursday night. * 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. && $$
248 WHUS44 KHGX 160843 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 343 AM CDT Thu Jun 16 2022 TXZ436>439-160945- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0032.000000T0000Z-220617T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 343 AM CDT Thu Jun 16 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Improved beach conditions are expected today. Diminishing winds and seas have lowered the risk of rip currents. $$
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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.