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Rip Current Statement 21, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 18, 2023, 9:51 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 2023, 9:51 PM CDT (02:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2023, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 21 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 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted.
034 WHUS44 KHGX 190251 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 951 PM CDT Tue Apr 18 2023 TXZ436>439-191100- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0021.230419T0251Z-230420T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 951 PM CDT Tue Apr 18 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday 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. && $$
3 follow-up statements
864 WHUS44 KHGX 190923 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 423 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 TXZ436>439-191730- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-230420T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 423 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
209 WHUS44 KHGX 191511 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1011 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 TXZ436>439-192315- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-230420T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1011 AM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * 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. && $$
056 WHUS44 KHGX 192056 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 356 PM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 TXZ436>439-200000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0021.000000T0000Z-230420T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 356 PM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.