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Rip Current Statement 16, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at May 3, 2024, 2:43 PM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 30 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2024, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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 19:42 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, 7.7 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
- 3112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 11.5
The text
As transmitted.
852 WHUS44 KHGX 031943 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 243 PM CDT Fri May 3 2024 TXZ436>439-040345- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0016.240503T1943Z-240505T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 243 PM CDT Fri May 3 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. && $$
1 follow-up statement
264 WHUS44 KHGX 040826 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 326 AM CDT Sat May 4 2024 TXZ436>439-050200- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0016.000000T0000Z-240505T0200Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 326 AM CDT Sat May 4 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Saturday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 9:36 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend, Harris | 15 hr |
| May 3, 2:54 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Madison | 51 min |
| May 3, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker | 45 min |
| May 3, 3:18 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 87 min | |
| May 3, 3:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 28 min |
| May 3, 3:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Waller | 27 min |
| May 3, 3:35 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 25 min |
| May 3, 3:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery, Waller | 32 min |
| May 3, 3:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 38 min |
| May 3, 3:57 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Harris | 21 days |
| May 3, 4:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Harris, Montgomery | 26 min |
| May 3, 4:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Washington | 24 min |
| May 3, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity, Walker | 17 min |
| May 3, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto | 13 min |
| May 3, 5:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 37 min |
| May 3, 5:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 3, 5:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 3, 5:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty | 2 hr |
| May 3, 6:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto | 7 hr |
| May 3, 6:50 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 42 min |
| May 3, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 4 hr |
| May 3, 7:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | HGX | 64 min | |
| May 3, 7:58 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| May 3, 8:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Chambers, Harris | 3 hr |
| May 3, 9:51 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker | 20 min |
| May 3, 10:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 3, 10:29 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Houston, Madison, Trinity, Walker | 15 days |
| May 3, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | San Jacinto | 32 min |
| May 3, 10:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 26 min |
| May 3, 10:52 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Walker | 23 min |
| May 3, 11:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | HGX | Grimes, Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and 1 more | 27 min |
| May 3, 11:33 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Harris | 27 min |
| May 3, 11:35 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Chambers, Harris, Liberty | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:49 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Grimes, Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 3, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 26 min |
| May 3, 12:32 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 28 min |
| May 3, 1:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker | 3 hr |
| May 3, 1:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 32 min |
| May 3, 1:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HGX | Harris, Liberty, Montgomery | 101 min |
| May 3, 2:39 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 10 hr | |
| May 3, 2:50 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HGX | Liberty | 25 min |
| May 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | HGX | Brazos, Chambers, Grimes, Harris, Houston, Liberty and 7 more | 14 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.