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Rip Current Statement 18, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at May 8, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 8, 2024, 9:00 AM CDT (14:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 15 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 14:01 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, 2.0 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
- 2958 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
311 WHUS44 KHGX 081400 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 900 AM CDT Wed May 8 2024 TXZ436>439-090000- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0018.240508T1400Z-240509T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 900 AM CDT Wed May 8 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
096 WHUS44 KHGX 082132 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 432 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 TXZ436>439-090500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-240509T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 432 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
555 WHUS44 KHGX 090317 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1017 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 TXZ436>439-090500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0018.000000T0000Z-240509T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1017 PM CDT Wed May 8 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Until midnight CDT tonight. * 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 8, 10:39 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Fort Bend | 6 days |
| May 8, 10:40 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria, Fort Bend | 17 days |
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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.