Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2023
Rip Current Statement 22, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 19, 2023, 9:05 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 25 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2023, 9:05 PM CDT (02:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2023, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 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 02:09 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, 2.1 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
- 827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted.
841 WHUS44 KHGX 200205 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 905 PM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 TXZ436>439-201015- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0022.230420T0205Z-230421T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 905 PM CDT Wed Apr 19 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Thursday 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
610 WHUS44 KHGX 200811 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 311 AM CDT Thu Apr 20 2023 TXZ436>439-201615- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0022.000000T0000Z-230421T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 311 AM CDT Thu Apr 20 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Do not swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Grimes | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Grimes, Madison, Montgomery, Walker | 44 min |
Nearby
Rip Current Statements in Texas, 2023Every rip current statement in 2023
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.