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Rip Current Statement 44, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Aug 7, 2023, 3:39 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
- Aug 7, 2023, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2023, 1:00 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 20:39 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, 8.7 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
- 1056 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -5.9
The text
As transmitted.
229 WHUS44 KHGX 072039 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 339 PM CDT Mon Aug 7 2023 TXZ436>439-081000- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0044.230807T2039Z-230808T1800Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 339 PM CDT Mon Aug 7 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday afternoon. * 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
406 WHUS44 KHGX 080844 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 344 AM CDT Tue Aug 8 2023 TXZ436>439-081800- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0044.000000T0000Z-230808T1800Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 344 AM CDT Tue Aug 8 2023 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Matagorda Islands, Brazoria Islands, Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 3:40 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 58 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.