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Rip Current Statement 19, NWS Houston/Galveston, TX
NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued this rip current statement at May 11, 2024, 10:08 AM CDT for Brazoria County, Galveston County, Matagorda County, Texas. It was in force for 38 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 11, 2024, 10:08 AM CDT (15:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2024, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 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 15:08 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, 3.1 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
- 927 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
733 WHUS44 KHGX 111508 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1008 AM CDT Sat May 11 2024 TXZ436>439-112315- /O.NEW.KHGX.RP.S.0019.240511T1508Z-240513T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1008 AM CDT Sat May 11 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
956 WHUS44 KHGX 120716 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 216 AM CDT Sun May 12 2024 TXZ436>439-121530- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-240513T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 216 AM CDT Sun May 12 2024 ...HIGH RIP CURRENT RISK REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH AT LEAST THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous rip currents. * WHERE...Gulf-facing beaches, including the Matagorda Peninsula, Brazoria County beaches, Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. * WHEN...Through Sunday evening. * IMPACTS...Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Swim near a lifeguard and away from rocks, jetties, and piers. If caught in a rip current, relax and float. Don't swim against the current. If able, swim in a direction following the shoreline. If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help. && $$
818 WHUS44 KHGX 121533 CFWHGX Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Houston/Galveston TX 1033 AM CDT Sun May 12 2024 TXZ436>439-130500- /O.CON.KHGX.RP.S.0019.000000T0000Z-240513T0500Z/ Matagorda Islands-Brazoria Islands-Galveston Island- Bolivar Peninsula- 1033 AM CDT Sun May 12 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 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. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Houston/Galveston, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 11:19 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | HGX | 8 hr | |
| May 11, 2:19 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | HGX | Brazoria | 4 days |
| May 11, 2:51 PM CDT | Flood Watch | HGX | Brazos, Grimes, Houston, Liberty, Madison, Montgomery and 4 more | 51 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.