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Rip Current Statement 49, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 3, 2022, 3:38 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 33 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 3, 2022, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 5, 2022, 1:00 AM CDT
- 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 20:42 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, 8.6 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
924 WHUS44 KHGX 032038 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 338 PM CDT Thu Nov 3 2022 TXZ436>439-040445- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0049.221103T2038Z-221105T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 338 PM CDT Thu Nov 3 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through late Friday 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
597 WHUS44 KHGX 041605 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1105 AM CDT Fri Nov 4 2022 TXZ436>439-050015- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0049.000000T0000Z-221105T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1105 AM CDT Fri Nov 4 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through late tonight. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
065 WHUS44 KHGX 042100 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 400 PM CDT Fri Nov 4 2022 TXZ436>439-050500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0049.000000T0000Z-221105T0600Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 400 PM CDT Fri Nov 4 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM CDT SATURDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through late 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. 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. && $$
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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.