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Rip Current Statement 53, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Nov 25, 2022, 10:19 PM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 25, 2022, 10:19 PM CST (04:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 26, 2022, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 23 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 04:18 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, 4.3 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 325 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 478 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted.
012 WHUS44 KHGX 260419 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1019 PM CST Fri Nov 25 2022 TXZ436>439-261230- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0053.221126T0419Z-221127T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1019 PM CST Fri Nov 25 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
664 WHUS44 KHGX 261255 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 655 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022 TXZ436>439-262100- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0053.000000T0000Z-221127T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 655 AM CST Sat Nov 26 2022 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 25, 6:08 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Galveston | 22 min |
| Nov 25, 7:29 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend, Wharton | 68 hr |
| Nov 25, 7:58 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Harris | 2 hr |
| Nov 25, 10:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 55 hr |
| Nov 26, 1:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 25 min | |
| Nov 26, 2:11 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Wharton | 34 min |
| Nov 26, 2:42 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 48 min | |
| Nov 26, 3:24 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 51 min | |
| Nov 26, 4:08 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 52 min | |
| Nov 26, 4:52 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | HGX | 2 hr | |
| Nov 26, 5:02 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 28 min | |
| Nov 26, 5:29 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 16 min | |
| Nov 26, 5:48 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Brazoria | 42 min |
| Nov 26, 6:06 AM CST | River Flood Warning | HGX | Matagorda, Wharton | 37 hr |
| Nov 26, 6:43 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Galveston | 6 hr |
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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.