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Beach Hazards Statement 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this beach hazards statement at Apr 27, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 67 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 27, 2024, 2:00 AM CDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 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 07:03 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, 7.0 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
- 2287 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this beach hazards statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this beach hazards statement went out at Apr 26, 11:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 11:36 PM CDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 10:35 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | HGX | Brazoria, Galveston, Matagorda | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:17 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Jackson and 3 more | 29 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:58 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | HGX | Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston, Harris | 27 hr |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Texas, 2024Every beach hazards statement in 2024
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.