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Rip Current Statement 11, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Mar 29, 2024, 6:21 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 3 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2024, 6:21 PM CDT (23:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2024, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 days
- 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 23:21 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, 11.4 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
- 1365 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
680 WHUS44 KHGX 292321 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 621 PM CDT Fri Mar 29 2024 TXZ436>439-300730- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0011.240329T2321Z-240331T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 621 PM CDT Fri Mar 29 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday 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. && $$
6 follow-up statements
980 WHUS44 KHGX 300708 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 208 AM CDT Sat Mar 30 2024 TXZ436>439-310000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240331T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 208 AM CDT Sat Mar 30 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
499 WHUS44 KHGX 302310 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 610 PM CDT Sat Mar 30 2024 TXZ436>439-310715- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240401T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 610 PM CDT Sat Mar 30 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday 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. && $$
947 WHUS44 KHGX 310810 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 310 AM CDT Sun Mar 31 2024 TXZ436>439-010000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240401T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 310 AM CDT Sun Mar 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
759 WHUS44 KHGX 312332 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 632 PM CDT Sun Mar 31 2024 TXZ436>439-010745- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240402T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 632 PM CDT Sun Mar 31 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Monday 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. && $$
274 WHUS44 KHGX 010811 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 311 AM CDT Mon Apr 1 2024 TXZ436>439-020000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240402T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 311 AM CDT Mon Apr 1 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
597 WHUS44 KHGX 012012 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 312 PM CDT Mon Apr 1 2024 TXZ436>439-020000- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0011.000000T0000Z-240402T0000Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 312 PM CDT Mon Apr 1 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until 7 PM CDT 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.