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Rip Current Statement 13, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at Apr 16, 2024, 10:48 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 47 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2024, 10:48 AM CDT (15:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 2024, 10:06 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 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 15:53 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, 3.8 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
- 562 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -690 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 683 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 271 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 506 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
985 WHUS44 KHGX 161548 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1048 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 TXZ436>439-170000- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0013.240416T1548Z-240417T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1048 AM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 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 9 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. && $$
4 follow-up statements
527 WHUS44 KHGX 170121 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 821 PM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 TXZ436>439-170930- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240418T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 821 PM CDT Tue Apr 16 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Wednesday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
038 WHUS44 KHGX 172306 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 606 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 TXZ436>439-180715- /O.EXT.KHGX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240419T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 606 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the 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 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. && $$
258 WHUS44 KHGX 180652 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 152 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 TXZ436>439-181500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240419T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 152 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
493 WHUS44 KHGX 181506 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1006 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 TXZ436>439-181615- /O.CAN.KHGX.RP.S.0013.000000T0000Z-240419T0300Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1006 AM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK IS CANCELLED... Galveston Beach Patrol is reporting weak to moderate rip currents along area beaches. Therefore, the high rip current risk has been rescinded. Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. $$
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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.