Alert archive / Texas / Rip Current Statements in 2024
Rip Current Statement 1, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Jan 21, 2024, 12:18 PM CST for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 57 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2024, 12:18 PM CST (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2024, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 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 18:19 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 12:00Z, 6.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 790 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 336 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 944 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
645 WHUS44 KHGX 211818 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1218 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 TXZ436>439-220230- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0001.240121T1818Z-240123T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1218 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
5 follow-up statements
257 WHUS44 KHGX 212132 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 332 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 TXZ436>439-220545- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240123T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 332 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday afternoon. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
314 WHUS44 KHGX 220331 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 931 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 TXZ436>439-221200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240123T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 931 PM CST Sun Jan 21 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
940 WHUS44 KHGX 222252 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 452 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2024 TXZ436>439-230700- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240123T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 452 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
036 WHUS44 KHGX 230400 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1000 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2024 TXZ436>439-231500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240123T1500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1000 PM CST Mon Jan 22 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST TUESDAY... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * 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. && $$
448 WHUS44 KHGX 231233 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 633 AM CST Tue Jan 23 2024 TXZ436>439-240300- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0001.000000T0000Z-240124T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 633 AM CST Tue Jan 23 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
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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.